This is part of a general cultural malaise.
It focuses not on the dead, dry past but squarely on our present cultural malaise.
I would argue that the tabloids' approach to celebrities is part of a wider cultural malaise in journalism.
The reader is, however, made to understand that the Soviet takeover was made possible because of widespread cultural malaise.
And, most important, the camera's ability to create stereotypes is used effectively to describe a cultural malaise involving the loss of individuality.
The takeover is possible because of widespread cultural malaise.
It is not helpful for Thurow to convert this cultural malaise into an "us" against "them" conflict, "them" apparently being my struggling contemporaries.
When was the last time a Foucauldian offered a step-by-step cure for cultural malaise?
Decades before the term attention deficit disorder was popularized, it codified an emerging cultural malaise.