What ever happened to central-east European art and culture?

'Inspired' by two rather vacuous articles on Comment is Free I have decided to write this both as a plea and as an indictment of our globalised neo-liberal consumer society. Following Ed Husain's remarkably confused and empty 'article', Aleksandra Łojek-Magdziarz attempted to continue a debate on 'what now for the Poles in Britain' in her piece 'Eastern promises'. Leaving aside the hideously misplaced and ill-informed parallels put forward by neo-con poster boy Ed Husain, Aleksandra Łojek-Magdziarz flattered to deceive in both her article, but especially in the responses she gave later on in the thread. To her credit, however, she did respond unlike the moderate poster boy. Her article was merely a debunking of self-evident stereotypes and did not warrant an entire thread on CiF. In the process of both threads, I raised the issue of the effect the migrational patterns of contemporary Europe is having on the arts and culture in specifically Poland, but also more widely speaking in central-east Europe. I suggested that the shock therapy of the early 1990s of introducing capitalism suddenly and imposing consumerist values on these post-communist societies has completely eroded culture and cultural production in these countries. Here is are some snippets from my posts:

"It is striking how there is a cultural vacuum in this respect. Perhaps that is
part of the process of a globalising consumer society. It subverts any real
attempts to discuss important issues. Instead we end up with a Bridget Jones
style 'culture', which subsumes everything."

"There is a void of meaningful culture in Poland and elsewhere, because that
space has been occupied by the blind forces of consumer free-market
capitalism.[...]"

"What I'm worried about is the mindless pursuit of meaningless consumerist junk,
which is what is driving the current migration pattern in Europe.[...]
Krakow has wonderful galleries, unfortunately the exhibits are all rooted in
the past. If you go to the Massolit bookshop in Krakow, it is full of wonderful
Polish and central east European writers. But none of them are contemporaries.
Where is the meaningful contemporary culture and its producers? They are
hankering after junk. When Milosz died, Polish art and culture died. There is
nothing there. That's the other downside of globalised consumerism."

I simply cannot find any meaningful literature, music, or art that is being produced in post-communist countries. It is as if they have been sucked dry and subsumed into a empty culture-free space. Where are the good new writers, musicians, artists? As a nod to a good band I saw live this summer in the Gödör Club, Budapest, here are Kistehén Tánczenekar with Virágok A Réten (Flowers in the meadow):