The whole 'being about nothing', the vapidness of their personal relationships, how self centered the main characters are. I think it's a good representation of

The whole 'being about nothing', the vapidness of their personal relationships, how self centered the main characters are. I think it's a good representation of how quickly modern consumer society careened from it's purpose of proving western liberal capitalism was superior to communist polities and descended into nihilism and pleasure seeking behavior once the Soviet Union fall. They even touch on how fragmented urban society had become and how hopelessly isolated we were becoming in the crowd, even before social media.