Culture Made Stupid

{{Short description|1987 book by Tom Weller}}

{{Infobox book

| name = Culture Made Stupid

| image = Culture Made Stupid.jpg

| image_size = 200px

| caption = 1st US version

| author = Tom Weller

| cover_artist = Tom Weller

| country = United States

| language = English

| genre = Satire

| publisher = Houghton Mifflin Company

| release_date = 1987

}}

Culture Made Stupid (also spelled Cvltvre Made Stvpid, {{ISBN|978-0395404614}}) is a book written and illustrated by Tom Weller in 1987.

The book is subtitled "A Misguided Tour of Illiterature, Fine & Dandy Arts, & the Subhumanities", and it satirizes literature and the humanities. The book in its entirety is [http://www.chrispennello.com/tweller/ available online], in addition to several excerpts, including an authorized reprinting of Beowulf ond Godsylla [http://specgram.com/CLIII.3/03.weller.beowulf.html].

Paul Krugman, a columnist for The New York Times, called the book a "neglected classic".{{cite web |last=Krugman |first=Paul |date=2009-02-18 |title=America's Motto |url=https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/americas-motto/?_r=0 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231000649/https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/americas-motto/?_r=0 |archive-date=2013-12-31 |access-date=2022-02-28 |website=The New York Times |series=The Conscience of a Liberal }}

Weller wrote a similar volume Science Made Stupid, satirizing science, which won the 1986 Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book.