Cultural drift: “the gradual, uncontrolled changing of a culture, with its distinctive norms, values, and patterns of behavior, over time.”
That seems terribly old, verging on quaint, now. Art is a monoculture now, to be sure, everything smoothed into a beige infinite by streaming. But everything else that constitutes a common culture? There is no longer broad consensus on whether or not the earth is flat. Nob0dy wants to claim constant cultural churn as the legendary Singularity, the endpoint of Timewave Zero where everything changes and remains always changing from that point on. But, if you’re looking for a condition of uncontrollable fracturing of cultural norms, that’s probably what we’re living in.
