It is all a frivolous thing for a frivolous nation. Harmful is stretching it. Fads hide within fads. And one particularly prevalent one is to, for whatever reason, look down upon a current pop culture fad. This is mainly due to saturation of an area with a particular fad... I.E...The mugs, key-chains, clothing line and Disney paraphernalia that churns out on store aisles to be bought by moms for their little ones.

Now, in defense of your argument...I've not come into contact with it much at all. I'm not in an environ that exposes me much to Hannah Montana. I can't claim to suffer from over-exposure. Most of the people around here, including the little ones are not particularly fond of any of it.

HOWEVER:

It is a grotesque thought that a sizable amount of today's youth are reared on cookie-cutter productions of such mediocre normalcy. It's nearly equatable with a type of conditioning that results in a frightening similarity between persons. I would consider that harmful...except for Martin's very good point that if it wasn't for this it would be something else.

There will always be a majority, a norm, a social standard...and from that, there will always be trends, fads and phenomenons. It's just simply the Tao of humanity.

-Sin


P.S. Oh...and I never liked Disney. They butcher literary works for hot extruded ticky-tacky held together with plaster of paris, papier-mache and plastic glue that comes in any flavor.