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Joan Westenberg on declaring things dead

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. How convenient that the golden age always ended just as we aged into it.

Joan Westenberg, Everything is Dead and We Killed It.

Maybe so, but music really has been getting worse since around 1982! 😅

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