The problem, Josh, isn't so much that K-Punk created a composite, and didn't name names or quote anyone, but that he projected the stupidest possible arguments onto the "popists," one that couldn't stimulate thought in anyone. And I don't know how to use his counterarguments (what he was saying about Potter and postpunk was too vague, and his bizarre claim that "Popism's calls to be always cheerful about mass culture are very much like being told (by our class superiors, natch) to be content with our lot," which reads to me like hysteria) to stimulate my own thought.