As Boomers across the country get their identity from national media outlets (e.g Fox News), Zoomers are getting their identities from niche online communities, where the relevant distinctions are being sliced thinner and thinner.
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Most people look around and ask, "where am I?", and then they ask "which side am I on?". And the internet changes answers to that first question, even if the second question always converges towards a dichotomy.
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Two important things to recognize as you look around a place like Twitter: 1. Not everyone is hanging out around the same region of identity-space. 2. The identities and affiliations that are most attractive/powerful are those that are indexed to one's chosen milieu.
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This is all to say: Klein can be right about the dynamics of polarization necessarily converging toward two poles, while also missing the way in which two-pole-aligned communities are proliferating in a fractal-like pattern.
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TL;DR: For people living in Berkeley, NYC, and Cambridge (
) and their online equivalents, the left/right dichotomy is less interesting/engaging than, say, intra-left fight over tankies.Prikaži ovu nit -
h/t: The great two-parter
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