There should be some word or phrase for the fact that our culture can't seem to actually produce great literature, and modern people can't seem to muster the at

There should be some word or phrase for the fact that our culture can't seem to actually produce great literature, and modern people can't seem to muster the attention to read great literature, and so kids stuff like Calvin and Hobbes and Harry Potter is touted as being "great literature" somehow. It's not; it's insipid kids stuff. Enjoy it for what it is worth; if you call it "great literature" you're just revealing the fact you don't read much in the way of literature or greatness. Go read some Dostoevsky or Melville, or for heaven's sake, even some Kipling or Tolkien if you can only read kids stuff. Next week we'll have something on the high literary qualities of bazooka bubble gum cartoons, and asterisk and obelisk comics; how Winnie the Poo was the 8th incarnation of the Buddha.