So what I do is look for diamonds in the rough. try to extricate the possibilities of lost futures. Just as in historical politics, when the class is defeated its vanguard is weak, in culture, when the culture is conformist, its avant-garde tendancies are also found lacking. It is hard to think of any cultural artifacts from the 2010s which are all that essential, ditto 2020s. We have entered a real period of aesthetic stagnation, and I fear the only way we will get out of it is through the after effects of war and displacement of populations. But then, multiculturalism, miscegenation and creole musics have always been based on a foundation of violence.
A certain direction techstep could have continued to evolve in.