For what it's worth, I'm British and even though I didn't get all the cultural references in his essays, it was usually easy enough and read between the lines t

For what it's worth, I'm British and even though I didn't get all the cultural references in his essays, it was usually easy enough and read between the lines to infer what he was hoping to illustrate from his examples. This happens a lot in one of my favourite DFW essays, E Pluribus Unum, which although a little dated, still does a great job of illustrating the impacts of "self-aware" media consumption, and how it affects the richness (or lack thereof) of culture.