Why is everything so low quality these days?

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Since at least 2014 or '15, I’ve noticed that pop culture has become noticeably worse. Not only morally, but artistically and in substance as well.
  1. Music goes out of style in what, 3 weeks?
  2. Movies are social justice sermons and/or more superhero sequels.
  3. The Oscars, Emmys, etc are virtue-signaling contests
  4. TV, late night “comedy” in particular, is a lecture on what to laugh at and what to think.
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  5. Sports are just endless advertising. I deigned to watch the Super Bowl this year; what I got was a boring, vapid cringefest that embodied everything I detest about the world.
Why is it like this now? What happened?
 
It’s probably because people still spend money on it. Why try to make better quality when people eat the garbage up?

I personally like the Marvel movies, although I will admit I’m starting to get a bit burnt out.
 
Massive brainwashing. This is counterculture at its worst. Time for people to look at alternatives. They do exist, but not in mainstream outlets.
 
Everything’s fragmented and gone indie. The best stuff is known only to those who ignore the mainstream and bother to ferret out something good.

This isn’t a particularly new phenomenon either. The pop culture of the late 70s, for the most part, stunk. A few bright spots with the original seasons of SNL perhaps, but as one who was living through it, it was mostly awful. That’s why we all started listening to 1000-watt college stations in the first place, and watching independent movies screened at colleges and the occasional art house. It took a few years for the industry to get around to capitalizing on that.
 
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Why is it like this now? What happened?
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Interesting!

Has it really, or are we just so entrenched in what we are used to that any variance is viewed as a reduction in “quality”?
 
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This is most apparent in the video game industry. Companies like Dice, EA, and Bethesda are churning out swill that people buy, but routinely get panned (as a fan of the Fallout franchise, I can tell that Todd Howard has utterly eviscerated it with FO76 by making an MMO that nobody asked for).

Meanwhile, some of the best ones are indie games that take off on Steam. Of course, those arise from mountains of indie shovelware, so you’re looking for a diamond in the rough.
 
I thought you meant low quality as in poorly made, designed, constructed stuff that you buy in the store. Like you buy an umbrella and it breaks the first time it rains. Or you buy an expensive pair of basketball shoes and they blow out and cause a serious knee injury.
 
Came to this thread thinking it would be about how my kids shoes keep exploding, I have decreasing amounts of hand-me-downs, and I carry stress and guilt about throwing away broken and worn out things. I was wrong, but I find your assessments accurate, but am relieved I don’t bother watching many of those on thr list.
 
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I thought you meant low quality as in poorly made, designed, constructed stuff that you buy in the store. Like you buy an umbrella and it breaks the first time it rains. Or you buy an expensive pair of basketball shoes and they blow out and cause a serious knee injury.
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Came to this thread thinking it would be about how my kids shoes keep exploding, I have decreasing amounts of hand-me-downs, and I carry stress and guilt about throwing away broken and worn out things. I was wrong, but I find your assessments accurate, but am relieved I don’t bother watching many of those on thr list.
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I mean, those too. Everything is cheap and disposable now, and soon this world will be one big parking lot built on a landfill.
 
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Massive brainwashing. This is counterculture at its worst. Time for people to look at alternatives. They do exist, but not in mainstream outlets
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I agree.

Since at least the 1950s, a dedicated group of social Marxists have worked to dismantle Christian society.

Their method was to criticise everything that was traditional: sexual mores, nuclear family life, patriarchal leadership, relgious hegemony. The Marxist critics infiltrated government, church, and academic institutions in order to conduct what they called the “long march.” The long march through the institutions has done more to change society than anything else. Their brainwashing has worked.

Their goal was to destroy any cultural resistance to Marxian socialism. I think they’ve almost achieved this goal. This is evidenced by the fact that the great bastion of capitalism - the USA - is slowly becoming more open to socialism. Once activist SCOTUS judges kill the Constitution by interpretation, I predict a future socialist government in the USA. And once the socialists take over, they’ll encourage mass immigration from the third world. Then it will be RIP America.
 
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Can anything positive come from the use of the term “these days”? I feel a challenge coming on…
 
By 2014-15 most people had smartphones. It would make sense that app quality would go down as a result of the gobs and gobs of people trying to make money off of them.

Also, since most people have smartphones, the 15 second Twitter attention span has taken root. The dumbing down of culture since then has accelerated. Moore’s Law has leveled off but some kind of new cultural stupidity law took over.
 
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I’ve felt for a while that the biggest problem isn’t so much ‘quality’ as lack of originality and distinctiveness in all fields of cultural endeavor.
 
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I’ve felt for a while that the biggest problem isn’t so much ‘quality’ as lack of originality and distinctiveness in all fields of cultural endeavor.
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The originality is out there. Industry gatekeepers don’t give it a chance.
 
It’s been sliding for a while. Look at a lot of post-WW2 architecture-- church architecture, municipal architecture, etc. A lot of it is really ugly. Stained glass is ugly, furniture got pretty ugly, clothes got ugly, animation got ugly. But at the same time— it got very plentiful, and became cheaper to produce. And so as the quantity escalates, it comes at a cost.

People want a steady stream of “new”, and they’re willing to trade a whole lot of “good” or “unique” or “I put a lot of thought into this” in exchange.
 
What is that dedicated group? Who made it up? Do you have their charter or mission statement or something? Who’s in it now?
 
Google the Frankfurt School and Antonio Gramsci. For more contemporary information, google post-modernism.
 
I’m glad the Commies managed to stop slaughtering their people long enough to make movies.
 
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