My town is getting more artsy-fartsy, chi-chi, pseudointellectual by the day; but as you can see by this post from 2013, it was already going down the tubes four years ago.
What makes expensively educated people flock to twaddle?
https://leeduigon.com/2013/07/16/youve-heard-of-blind-guides-but-this-is-worse/