Cultural revolutions can arise from mixed state, market, and individual drivers

Evidence

What happened was really a kind of “revolution”—though not a French Revolution–style revolution. Something more like a quiet, gradual, general, and very real transformation in culture. And it was driven by a host of different factors, including actual public policies (the U.S. Army fretted about the conditioning of its new recruits, and helped encourage a fresh emphasis on “physical education” in schools), popular authors and books (James F. Fixx’s 1977 bestseller, The Complete Book of Running, did more to spur health-buff joggers than any other single event or phenomenon), and eccentric impresarios and showmen (like the irrepressible fitness entrepreneur Arthur Jones, who developed both the BowFlex workout station and the Nautilus line of gyms and exercise machines—and who also spent a fair bit of time trying to fatten his pet saltwater crocodile to world-record proportions). — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 195

Categorization

• XREF: The diagnosis that culture shifts through public policy plus bottom-line commerce plus eccentric showmen parallels how the reader thinks about moral-panic and infrastructure transformations. — connects to: Cultural identity shifts can outstrip and outlast political revolutions.; Cultural formations are momentary equilibria of old and new social relations — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1412; Culture operates as a constitutive force in politics and social change — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 159 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Cultural identity shifts can outstrip and outlast political revolutions.; Cultural formations are momentary equilibria of old and new social relations — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1412; Culture operates as a constitutive force in politics and social change — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 159 (+2 more)