The mainstream seems to have put the avant-garde out of business.
Raghuram Rajan, one of the few mainstream academics to have predicted the crisis, has made this point repeatedly.
Or perhaps there simply isn't the zeal among mainstream Republicans to have this fight right now.
So faced with all this, how will VR companies try and inspire mainstream consumers to have a try?
It was the first mainstream show to have a gay man, Steven, struggling for acceptance from a homophobic father who had bumped off his lover with an ashtray.
In Australia, he is mainstream enough to have won a recent MySpace poll that asked which musician Australians would like to see installed as Prime Minister.
Look no further than tabbouleh, possibly the only herb-centric dish mainstream enough to have been tried by many people in this country.
Music is the most mainstream reason to have Internet at home.
"It was the first film that paved the way for a mainstream audience to have access to information about HIV/Aids," she says.
It'll go underground, but we want mainstream art to have a critical and dissenting voice because that's healthy for democracy".
