[cyberneticist]

A huge part of youth identity in the US use to be from the music business.

I mean we use to even have goth bars, punk bars. Imagine a bar in 2023 that only caters to people who like industrial or punk music. It sounds absolutely ridiculous.

The music business though was also highly connected to all other art forms in terms of the visual arts, fashion, literature.

With the change in the importance of music it basically devalued nearly all art forms compared to what use to be.

It seems like politics stepped in to fill this void for the youth. It is such a boring and disappointing development.

It is also not good for politics either to have competing factions who at 20 believe what they believe with near religious fervor.