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Can We Be Family?

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My mom asked, "Who is Bluey?" as my sister explained what her kids could watch all day. There seems to be a generation gap when it comes to popular culture. It's been decades since my mother had little children, so she is unfamiliar with the current shows for kids. On the other hand, my sister has three young ones at home and she feels the need to entertain them to get her housework done. Being able to discuss what is popular with kid's shows in recent years already showed me what Chuck Klosterman described in 2007 , “it is only a matter of time.”  While Klosterman was hilarious in his satirical article, he brings up several good points regarding our obsession with popular culture. He said there are three basic kinds of information: Information that you know you know. Information that you know you don’t know. Information that you don’t know you don’t know. In the example with my mom, she didn’t even know about the show "Bluey." She didn’t know what she didn’...