As a side-effect of the moral perversions of social media addiction—of the soul it produces—is an inability to say ‘no’ in offline social situations: people import the scroll mentality, the comment mentality, the like/dislike mentality into all situations. I find that there’s no talk of ideas—just people—anymore.
Generally, a strong culture is one where everyone's sense of culture is both autonomous and complex, where everyone, in other words, is self-cultivated and capable of entering into sophisticated forms of disagreement, as well as collaboration.
The sad reality of a philistine culture is that people would rather gossip about authors than read them.