- Hollywood releasing "reboots" "sequels", "prequels", doing "Hollywood remakes" of movies...nothing is very original now
- Music: well you already know, our biggest stars are people like Drake or Rihanna who really haven't brought anything new to the table. Everybody's a "rapper", but there are very few "artists" with "personnality" (Busta Rhymes, Prince, ODB etc) willing to take risks out there. Everyone wants to be "to cool for school" now.
- Sports : you already know too, I mean in basketball Kobe and Duncan are arguably still the best at their position which is as much a testament to their game as it is to the lack of young talent. And again, everybody is squeaky clean, everybody says the right thing and we'll are friends. After all you can get a T for hanging on the rim now.
- Politics: no new ideas really, the last big changes were the creation of the EU, the fall of the Soviet Union, and that's about it imo. Rise of China and Islamist terrorism have not lead to any new POLITICAL ideas. The last politician that sparked any excitement anywhere was Obama, and we haven't witnessed that much "change". Politics now is just basically are reducing deficits, no "societal" projects anymore. The "victory" of capitalism and western "democracy" has led to everyone trying to do the same thing, and anything else is deemed "insane". Just look at how everyone is calling France crazy because they don't want to consider cultural goods as regular goods. The end result is a leveling of culture, a world in which everyone looks at Games of Thrones, listens to Drake, eats McDonalds and drinks Starbucks café while tweeting on his Ipad. And if you like something else you're "passé", "reactionary", "old", "not hip".
- Society: everybody is everybody's friend on one side (PC at an all-time high) and on the other side everybody hates everybody (nationalism/racism coming back big time). Leads to one of the most phoney eras imo. The rise of the internet has led to less human to human interaction and much more exposure for "bad" behaviour. Everybody is so scared of being called a racist, a homophobe, a religious traditionalist, misogynistic or "lame" that everybody just says the same accepted thing, over and over again.