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The answer to this question: What is a trivial culture vs. a captive culture, would be, that the captive culture develops from elements that are forced upon the people, like it happened in China during Mao´s cultural revolution, while the trivial culture develops from elements that are too superficial and without any depth.
These concepts were born from two books: "1984" by George Orwell (captive culture), who showed in his novel how culture was attained by a society through forceful decisions made by a specific authority, and which limited the expression of anything outside of the norm, and from the book "Brave New World", by Aldous Huxely, which was the total opposite. This novel, unlike "1984", portrays a society whose cultural development comes from absolutely superficial elements, tied to mass media and generalized systems of belief and behavior, and not from anything deeper. It protrays a society that is overdriven by diversion, and distractions of all kinds, and thus can be used as an example of a trivial culture since this one where certain elements given to society allow it to form very superficial aspects of culture.
