It's been a while since I've read 'The Cheese and the Worms'.
I think that many of our conceptions of Europe, and history are off. There mas much more churn and people moving around than we think. Though Menocchio probably didn't travel far, the priests and members of the Inquisition did. If you where close to a river, you'd see lots of people moving around, they were highways of goods being moved.
This has been widely known already, it just takes pop history decades to catch up with what professional historians know and do.
And there is also the fact that a lot of people prefer myths to history, especially myths about sacred homelands unspoiled by people traveling and moving (i.e. migrants).
I think that there is something else happening. We as a society don't really recognize industrial design. Some Youtube channels like 'Technology Connections' does.
Perhaps in the future we'll spend more time recognizing the mastery of craft that industrial designers put into creating household lamps and such. Especially since the history is pilling up and ready to be mined for interesting content.
If feel that with Youtube you get a touch of the Zeitgeist. There are some milquetoast channels like 'Hoovie's Garage', 'Rich Rebuilds', that tap into what average people are interested in watching.
You can also see the small changes in the medium; everybody at once adopting click-bait titles once one person was successful with it. As soon as a channel gets some success like 'Hand Tool Restoration' then everyone starts doing the same thing.
If anyone reading this likes handtool restoration but has not come across the "my mechanics" channel, you have to check it out!
I agree with your assessment, but would add that sometimes fads popularize people with such skill and attention to detail that their success is well deserved. My Mechanics is one of those cases.
Academic speak has always been bad, and judging from this article it is only getting worse. Tone it down. I shouldn't need a Rosetta Stone to decipher your paper.
Also, the levels of abstractions, built upon abstractions, and wrapped in other abstractions is also getting silly; Gatsby Curve, Gini, citations and publication database...
In the winter, it's cold outside, and everything is frozen. So you don't need to hide the odor. Same with the fall. The lilac is easy to grow, and nice in the spring. So that just leaves the summer, but not many bushes are producing scent in the late summer, anyway.
What size of storage would you need?