I don't care what people's ethnicities are. I don't

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I don't care what people's ethnicities are. I don't care if someone has a different accent or dark skin. What I DO fundamentally care about is efficient economies and cultures. I'm sick and tired of living in the West and seeing multinationals make strides in technology and science and at the same time support complete cultural destruction. America has no culture. Most of the world's youth has no culture. Products are designed and marketed to become "obsolete" despite companies having ever increasing knowledge of how to make utilitarian, efficient, powerful and long-lasting products. Have you seen a car advertisement recently? Car advertisements are the epitome of what I'm talking about. Companies could design a car that could last 20 years, or at least design the next model with the better parts or whatever in a less radically different way than the first one to promote sharing of parts and efficiency of maintenance. In the 1800s, products were designed to last. Now it's all about style, color, having the latest and greatest (greed, conspicuous consumption), being "in the trend". Why is art falling to this same model? All culture is becoming pop culture. Planned obsolescence, no real quality beyond the initial. Why can't we come together and make technological, scientific and cultural/artistic products that promote human decency and excellence? Why is everything being more and more temporary when we have more potential than ever? Why does no one have any taste anymore? I don't really care about the environmental effects of all of this, even though that is a factor. Just why does the lowest common denominator completely dominate?