Straight up been feeling like that south park episode for years now.
I know it's not just me being depressed, because I get so much enjoyment from older movies, music, books... and there are of course non-dooky things that come out here and there. They're almost never popular.
I'm just listening to pretty well known 60s/70s/80s music and imagining how on earth I could've disliked it if I was around back then. I don't think I'm just being a contrarian and disliking what's popular.
How did we go from Woodstock to Lizzo? How did we go from original blockbuster movies coming out left and right in the 80s to blockbusters being purely capeshit, remakes/reboots, and capeshit wannabes?
More importantly, will this era of cultural stagnation ever end?
Is Western culture dead forever? Am I just a trans-boomer?
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Culture is stagnant as frick right now but the tradeoff is it's never been easier to access the entire preceding body of all entertainment and art made in any media. In previous generations the new shit had to be good because the old shit went out of print or they lost the original broadcast tapes or some shit but now you have everything at the click of a mouse button. Just ignore the bad shit and enjoy the good shit and don't worry about it.
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