[tylerjwilk00]

I enjoyed this article.

However, one possible explanation is that much of what the article calls culture simply doesn't matter anymore.

Carriage Horse fashion seems stuck as well but people moved on to automobiles and then that went through rapid iterations. Maybe peak fashion or peak culture is a thing and becomes wasteful after a certain threshold. Also the fact all media is available at anyone's fingertips in a second means that they don't have to wait for the mass media gate keepers to finish milking trends before a new consumer identity starts being marketed because You can have Anything Right Now!

Were a less material society now so it seems inevitable that material culture will decline.

[mqrs]

> Were a less material society now

Genuinely curious as to what led you into thinking that.

[senkora]

I’d guess they mean the “millenials prefer experiences to things” zeitgeist, which I think is broadly true.

Older generations valued having many possessions, whereas newer generations seem to see having lots of stuff as limiting. Of course, one way to not have much stuff is to regularly throw things away and buy more (e.g. fast fashion), which is... not ideal.