I did come of age during the Punk movement, and I sympathize with your perception of what has been lost (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529054 https:

I did come of age during the Punk movement, and I sympathize with your perception of what has been lost (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529054 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529054 below). The benefits of a somewhat slow and poorly distributed dispersal of culture are largely gone. The real question, as I see it, is what unpredictable cultural effects will the technology generate.