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> In retrospect, Cultural Ground Zero may not have been a civilization-killing event, but a cleansing forest fire that made way for new, fresh growth.

The part of this timeline that is so real for me is that gap from 97-00.

I was ambling around in late high school and early post-HS during this era, and I can clearly recall my friends and I asking "why does the music suck so much now?" on the regular. Every time we'd turn on the radio or what was left of MTV it was terrible. (Notable that MTV itself didn't survive as a music source.)

Like you I've tried to make the most of it. In point of fact there actually is quite a lot of talent hanging around in the long tails online, for music and books at least, if you don't mind doing the leg work.

Film is a different animal, and while I'm not a gamer, I do recognize that the only games I'm interested in are from the PS2 era and earlier.

That may change. Or it may be that we're in a terminal, if gradual, decline of civilization and we've already passed the high-water mark.

Either way I've made my peace with it all.

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