I know, but it was a prediction about the future. It was silly then, and looks sillier now in light of the way the future actually played out.
It's a tone of physical frenzy and spiritual numbness, a revelry of pop, a pursuit of high-tech, guiltless fun. It's a carnival culture featuring the tangible bottom lines of life--money, bodies, and brains--and the wordless deals with which one can be traded for another.
Seems to explain the popularity of the reality shows, extreme sports, internet porn, low-carb beer and Paris Hilton...