in the brief window when scarce broadcast media gave America a single culture, the normie search for authenticity via commonality was well served and the weirdo search for it via obscurity little impeded. who is harmed most by us having n cultures and n² countercultures again?
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Replying to @chaosprime
I think about this a lot. Legacy media was terrible in the way it distorted information and twisted the facts to serve its narratives, but at least it gave the people a common purporse and a sense of belonging. My normie side is constantly aching for that.
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Replying to @Garcilaso87 @chaosprime
Wait a moment, you said “having n cultures and n^2 countercultures {again}" What historical period are you thinking about? Wasn't most of human history just a case of a monoculture in which everything changed very slowly?
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Replying to @Garcilaso87 @chaosprime
(I guess exception would be period after printing press was developed, but even so I think it was magnitudes lower than what the Internet has entailed)
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my working idea about the matter is that regional culture was much stronger before masscomm and our idea of pre-masscomm monoculture is mostly a fault of the narrativization of history
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