Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups, and by fandom responding to the dwindling outposts of centralized mass media. It is a culture of reaction without action.
A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.
The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture.
An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.
