On the cultural death of Reddit Island. Part of Modern Taiwan's socio-economic malaise can be attributed to the continuous outflow of talent at all levels. The sad reality is that many of the exiled mainlander elites to Taiwan decamped for the US and died out there. More pressing
though is the continued bleeding of talent to the mainland that prevents a new elite from coalescing, leaving the island with the unpolished corners of a culture that is vaguely public access television like. The growth of Taiwanese identity has paradoxically seen a collapse in
the cultural output across every field you care to measure. The more de-racialized and de-culturalized of indigenous output, the more Taiwanese they become. The island is basically the archetype of the consumer Harry/Potter brain. The local television output is low budget trash,
the movie Industry D-list art house trash no one watches, the popular music scene is dead, literature is dead, video game industry is dead, every basic cultural output that isn't a hyperspecialized niche is dead. In its place, it's all imported from either Japan or the US. The
Taiwanese identity grows in the absence of actual differentiating markers. The more the youth are plugged into an Alien cultural output to which they are passive recipients who contribute nothing, the stronger their sense of (hollow) cultural uniqueness.
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