Saved by Brandon Marcus
No, Culture is Not Stuck
The Missing Piece in Conversations about “Cultural Decline”
culture.ghost.ioBut this obviously contributed to a feeling of decline in the long-run, because mass culture continued to do the thing it always does: avoid artistic innovation in order to maximize profit. But once poptimism established that only the mainstream "mattered," it set up audiences to judge the health of culture on its least artistic output. If we have... See more