While I’m a big federalism proponent, I think one thing we’re seeing is that the breakdown is between urban/rural and not state level. So eastern Washington has more in common with Idaho and Seattle more in common with San Francisco. Not clear how to resolve that.
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1. I agree with most of what you say, and perhaps would throw in how Turchin saw globalism around 1900 compared to now in terms of elite overproduction. But I kept waiting for the synthesis. There are people who do the synthesis - people like me with passports but also with…
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2. …a strong sense of place and localism. Although I doubt most would want a Mormon styled synthesis between cosmopolitanism and place. (Utah as where so many do volunteer work overseas, speak multiple languages, yet are anchored to a place)
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He thinks the same https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe_Guilluy …
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That seems less a synthesis than a kind of mutual tolerance. Which of course is fine when it’s actually achievable. I think the conflict comes when values of the two groups conflict. 2cd amendment rights being the obvious example but there are many others.
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I’d argue one reason for Utah taking the form it does is that most of the population is in suburban communities - neither really rural nor urban but a blend. Suspect that plays out in other areas too. (I’d argue Arizona fits into that somewhat too)
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"Historically the image of the cosmopolitan Jew is strong, but .. becoming far and far less accurate .." "[Today] 45% of the world’s Jews live in Israel, a very nationalistic, and rooted (sorry Arabs), people .. [this] will likely go above 50% in the next few decades."
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