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Cultural avant- grade is often ahead of the mainstream but usually barreling down a cul de sac. “Cool” is a surprisingly poor lens for predicting future because they tend to twist and turn much less in response to events than normies. Privilege inertia tangent-space subcultures.
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Stands to reason. Avant garde is research, branching out into many directions. Even among paths with potential, not all can be pursued at scale. So i suspect this could not be otherwise, by the very nature of cultural avantgardeness