Snakes on a Plane: the intellectual's approach to cultural hysteria

Of course I have been monitoring the "Snakes on a Plane" meme because a) I love Samuel L. b) I am not afraid of snakes and in fact kind of like snakes and c) I love memes. If you haven't heard of Snakes on a Plane yet, you can catch up via YouTube's collection of videos about Snakes on a Plane. But anyway, I was able to find an intellectual take on why our pop culture goes crazy over basically idiotic things like this. I like this explanation which touches on hysteria, the cold war, Jung and of course, snakes. Charm School: Snakes on a Mania!