Joan Westenberg on the death of everything:

In the beginning, there was the pure thing. Then came corruption, commercialization, normies, and death. We’re all walking around with these little creation myths about every domain we care about, and they all end the same way: with us as witnesses to a decline that began right after we showed up.

Culture is cyclical. I think it’s helpful to think about culture not as a binary between alive and dead, but rather an evolution from one point to another. Culture builds on culture builds on culture. It’s progressive, derivative and organic.