Societal Down Slope
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Culture undergoes a process of natural selection and evolution on its own.
The norms are constantly shifting and changing. You can trace back the path of how ideas, practices, and products have evolved with time. Taste, norms, and new technology do the selecting. A business, movement, or art piece from the past will not have its same success if it was introduced today because society has evolved past that point.
The societal slope moved and these old ideas are too far uphill from where society is at present day. If you introduced the radio today, would people even care? Streaming and social media are the new standard and people aren't willing to take a ski lift back uphill to adopt the radio for the first time.