The collapse of “alternative” culture.

By the mid-2000s electro and indie weren’t even considered the same thing, whereas in the 90s the Chemical Brothers and Meredith Brooks and Rage Against the Machine and Sublime and Korn and even bungee jumping and the films of Quentin Tarantino somehow were.

This tracks with the cosmopolitan college-educated “creative class” as ironically weakening as it expanded, going from narrow enough to achieve hegemony over the culture to sufficiently broad as to be captured by its own interests and divisions