In a multitemporal world, you can often detect beats (as in acoustics) when the internal clocks of two subcultures are close but not quite identical. The zone of adjacent subcultures that produce bears with yours is a sort of temporal uncanny valley
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A good example of beats is maid-culture/housewife culture in developing world. About 30 years ago, this was relatively harmonious. It was a co-dependency within a power gradient where both sides were in a mutual complaint detente. Neither side seriously wanted to break it.
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Post internet, with an empowered class of more entrepreneurial, and cellphone powered maids, who run on a faster tempo than older housewives of my mom’s generation, the detente has broke. The “beats” are predictable flare-ups, tempo-flexing (unpredictably not showing up) etc.
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