Even actresses that you really admire like Reese Witherspoon you think 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think 'God you're so great!' And then you think 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course it's for money and status.
Every legend moreover contains its residuum of truth and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
Considered now as a possession one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.