Why Culture Has Come to a Standstill

There are some limited places where culture has stopped because these places have made poor decisions.

Russia for example won't be producing much culture for the next century. Japan/Korea are near their end, they likely won't choose to recover.

New york city? Oh ya, collapse happening now. Culture probably not going to go well for them. Probably pretty upsetting for them to have fallen so far already and while they know they did it to themselves.