Is the Internet Making Culture Worse?
Is the Internet Making Culture Worse? Celine Nguyen The decline of criticism might explain the sense that our culture is stagnating. How can we bring it back? I don’t remember reading any great novels in the ‘90s. Or listening to any good albums, either. It’s not the decade’s fault, it’s mine: I was born in 1993. By the time I could read books and choose my own music, things were already going downhill. The 20th century, apparently, was the last time we had great art, literature, or music. Although the current century was meant to be a Cambrian explosion of creativity — inaugurated by the internet, or the creator economy, or NFTs, or AI — nothing has gotten better, only worse.That’s the argument, at least, of W. David Marx’s comprehensively…
