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I know what you mean OP.
Fiction of all sorts has stopped being authentic, and when I watch something old, be it a movie or anime, be it music or a book I feel fulfilled. It feels authentic and is authentic. It is as if at some recent point (think a decade or so) everything became a soulless product. But that is not all. I think the issue is deeper. Human beings as such are empty shells of what they once were. I feel this even in myself and it frightens me. I am in my thirties and my life is great, so this isn't teenage angst or similar bullshit. Everything is devoid of content, empty, meaningless, and feels like a cheap knock-off of the real thing. I can't think of this in any terms except metaphysical, I'm one of those guys. To me this all reeks of some profound inner change in Humanity that has drained us of our everything, and I do not know its name or origin. It is as if this endless sea of imagination has dried up. Nobody takes anything seriously anymore, but though this sounds cheeky and fun the reality of it is just pure inhuman existential dread. It's as if everything we considered human has been hollowed out and we have nothing to fill the void with. High ideals? Deep perversions? Chastity? Pedophilia? Murder, gentleness, love and hate? We believe in none of those things. We cannot take them seriously. All of that is paper thin and meaningless to us. We are all spent, completely spent and empty. And our fiction shows that.
Clown world is more like a world of mist and cobwebs with no meaning within or without. We DO treat fiction now as a mere product for $. But I think this issue goes beyond politics and mere zoomer rationalizations.
Everything is empty, but it was once full of meaning. May there be mercy for us all.
