At the risk of sounding old (which, arguably, I am), things have actually gotten worse culturally speaking over the last decade or so. The ongoing relentless mo

At the risk of sounding old (which, arguably, I am), things have actually gotten worse culturally speaking over the last decade or so. The ongoing relentless monetization of culture continues to accelerate and is one of the prime examples of not just stagnation but decline. Enshittification is not just about poorly performing software extracting dollars from our wallets but about how that imbalance between cost and value seems to have extended to nearly all realms of culture. This doesn’t mean things weren’t bad in the 90s though. Or that stagnation/decline is new. All of this can be and is true at once —- culture is declining, it has been for a long time, AND we (just me?) are old.