Although there are always some bright spots here and there, in general I think the last 20-30 years have been a cultural wasteland. Not that the previous 20-30 period was all that wonderful either. But I think it was better than today. Now we have very little to offer in term of culture and it’s just going to get worse.
We lost John W. Campbell.
Now ‘Who Goes There’?
Whenever a profession switches from predominately male to predominantly female it loses status... pay goes down... and quality suffers.
When men like Isaac Asimov were writing and editing the best and brightest were drawn to the profession...not so much anymore.