chapman's histories are very helpful they're kind of hyperlinked all over but worth reading (or reading again) what's interesting to me is that atomization seems to have fallen away; there's maybe more personal atomization, but political Teams seem to be on the rise again (?)https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1320817247070212096 …
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That’s my sense too. I don’t fully understand it, but my best guess is that the generations who fought Culture War I are rerunning CW II as their last stand, and have been successful in drafting younger generations because young people are too atomized to have their own politics
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Which might be good news if true, because in another 5-10 years the CW I generals will have aged out of the picture and can no longer pull the strings. OTOH, then there may be no one left with enough cognitive coherence to keep the machinery of society running. Bad news….
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i think what's unnerving to me is the zest with which millennials are leaping into CW2 the boomers almost feel like a moderating force at this point just a perception, may be wrong here hope I'm wrong
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yeah this is probably not going to end well
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Our current political divide is rooted in the culture war that began with the New Left & hippie counterculture in the 1960s-70s, versus the Evangelical counter-counterculture of the 70s-80s.
To better understand, I wrote a memetic history of that war: