I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.
We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.
Weirdly, the past starts to be about something else. It becomes about style in a way that it wasn't about, and I don't mean writing style, but cultural style.
I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.
It's like a 'chicken or the egg' thing. We're all part of the culture. We're reflecting it; we're changing it. So, yeah, I think culture is always changing.
In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.
When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we've moved past, rather than saving what was good and combining it with what is new.