VIBE SHIFT: IS MAXIMALISM HERALDING A POST-WOKE ERA?

As Europe's governments collapse and Galliano makes Victorian ghosts on ketamine, are we ushering a return to the Reaganesque 80’s culture of unapologetic decadence and excess?

If there's one thing Americans pundits love, it's announcing the death of an era. Every few years, some collection of cultural autopsists emerges from their Chrome-tab catacombs to declare that we're witnessing The Death of Something Big. Usually, the only thing that's dead is their claim to cultural relevance. But sometimes, just sometimes, they're onto something.

We're living through one of those moments now, watching the great millennial experiment in commodified self-actualization collapse. The vibes, as the kids say, are shifting—not just