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Placed in combination, these factors—the natural tendency to reduce cultural intake as you get older, the oversaturation of the market in an age of globalism and digital media, and the short-sighted tendency to mistake short-term developments for long-term changes—make it pretty easy for almost anyone to develop a pessimistic, backward-looking attitude to the cultural scene. Combine them with a handful of other conditions (the general balkanization of the culture, the increased reluctance of cross-cultural groups to communicate, and the fact that specialists tend to outnumber generalists these days), and you’ve got a toxic soup of reaction that everybody wants to taste.
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