Quote of the Day

Our culture is dead, and like all zombies it cannibalises its own past forms, in our case the cultural world of the 1980s which our civilisation replays, in increasingly degraded forms, over and over again, creating a nightmarish pastiche of the world we departed four decades ago. From the pop music of The Weeknd and Taylor Swift, to The Cabin in the Woods and Stranger Things, from Polaroid filters on Instagram and Facebook to split-sleeve dresses and tracksuits, our petrified cultural unworld is an eerie, ersatz airbrushed image of its own prior-vacuity, manifest in interminable synthwave soundtracks and their mutant, satirical shadows… —“Expressive Egg” on Substack 

If you care about (some of) the reasons behind our culture dying on the vine, I highly recommend reading both part 1 and part 2 of this cogent and important essay.