Chuck Klosterman has been getting some blow-back recently for the above observation, made in a Vulture interview around his latest opus The Nineties: A Book - i.e. the idea that there was no epistemic essence to the 2000s or indeed the 2010s
Forgive me but it does feel like a thought that's been around the block a few times already - c.f. me on the Noughties as a Zeit without a Geist, similar formulations by Mark Fisher, or indeed this 2011 Vanity Fair article by Kurt Anderson.
But I guess these are the eternal returns and endless recycles of our recursive culture, innit
