To know when a Culture has died, we first need to understand what “Culture” is.

Culture is defined as the customs, arts, social institutions, and intellectual achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.

If you look at the United States, in particular, each one of these things is in a state of rapid, steep decline. Anti-Intellectualism, which has always been a strain in society, has hit a new high point.

Okay, let’s examine each of the above attributes in detail.

Art: Writers and Actors are currently on strike because guys making more than $100 million per year don’t want to pay them what they’re worth. The studio CEOs think those jobs can be done by artificial intelligence. Music: Popular music is largely insipid trash, with each artist copying the last and all of them employing Auto-Tune among other computerized tools to mask their utter lack of talent. The other category of music are songs designed as marketing campaigns, or video game soundtracks. Country Music features many artists openly embracing racism and bigotry. Other forms of art are already being overtaken and subsumed by AI.

Social Institutions:. Facebook and other social media have destroyed nearly all of our social institutions. First, they destroyed our public meeting places and spaces where we formed social bonds. Then they fed misinformation and political disinformation to millions of people, further destroying and eradicating what social bonds still remained. Political institutions are hanging on by a thread due to the damage started by Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, et al.

It remains to be seen if society will make it through this neo-fascist period in our history. Many people are more aware now than ever, but in 2020, 74 million Americans voted for Donald Trump for President, even after seeing the job he had done for 4 years. Trump’s actions on COVID-19 led to the deaths of thousands, and yet millions of them voted for him and plan to vote for him again.

That last point covers intellectual achievements. There are still some noteworthy achievements, mainly because if they’re good enough, you can become fabulously wealthy. And that’s the one thing that people seem to want more than anything and are willing to do anything to get there.

Okay, so what should we post in this community? That’s easy. Post anything and everything that fits the above, that highlights the corporatization and death of our once vibrant culture.

There’s certainly no shortage of examples.