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I am listening, but not agreeing quite yet. What are the prejudices in Star Wars or Star Trek?
Restating your point in different words: Popular prejudice is conducive to having lots of fans and the more fans you have the more fanatics will be in the fanbase. "Bad" creeps in because of the popular prejudice.
This makes sense, but going the other way sure doesn't: Having a set of fanatics does not imply a large fan base, nor does it imply lots of popular prejudices.
I also claim that something can have a large fan base without popular prejudices and something can have popular prejudices without having a fan base. I do agree that with a bigger pool of fans you are probably picking up more fanatics.
So, yeah, I guess the loose correlation makes sense. But it is right?
I also think we can think of "prejudices" or pre-judgments common in popular media which aren't necessarily bad. Star Trek, for instances propagates prejudices toward tolerance, rationality, exploration, etc. So I think there's a lot of popular media which is also "good." I guess I may have misread your point - I'm talking instrumentally and you mean aesthetically.
Promotes rationality? Star Trek? Where?