Re-reading @GreatDismal’s Count Zero, after many years. In that future, there are all kinds of interesting subcultures & secret languages. There is depth. But in our present the internet creates & erases subcultures & secret languages fast. It’s shallow as a puddle.
Insufficient psycho-social reflexivity, which is required in order to develop the requisite ‘cohesive tensions’ necessary for depth and continuity of culture. Perhaps.