The omnivore monoculture was a temporary anomaly against culture’s natural fragmentation

Evidence

But perhaps this simply ended a peculiar experiment in global culture, in which all tastes—high, middle, and low; cosmopolitan and provincial—coexisted on the same mega-platforms. Rather than a total collapse, this fragmentation signaled a return to the natural order—the splintering of culture into smaller, more insular communities. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 715

Categorization

• QUESTION: Central pivot for the reader’s counter-case: was the mega-platform monoculture really temporary, and is fragmentation really the ‘natural order’ pre-dating mass media?