This might sound a cliched thing to say but... How did modern

>>3025322
God died

Commodification, uniformization and atomization.

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Postmodernism

Capitalist economy, and ultimately economy in general. The assignment and privileging of the exchange value of a good that is necessary for its entrance into the market as a commodity, in the end, results in the erasure of all particularities of the object that make it valuable for itself, insofar as the object is correlated with an abstract quantity (its price). The emptiness of culture is a result of the progressive expansion of what can be counted as having an exchange value.

>>3025322
It became economic article. What you call "vapid" and "empty" are simply the attributes for best selling products.