You know why we’re doing the culture wars in the US first?
It’s the easiest case.
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Amazing what the Germans managed to accomplish in the field of kulturkampf without the internet, the sine qua non of kulturkampf
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Bismarck literally trolled the French into a disastrous war without even a single pepe
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The whole German imperial experience on into Weimar is good enough example of a literate, media-consuming society siloing itself into antagonistic echo chambers that it seems reasonable to accept its paradigmatic status.
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I prefer to draw a clean line between pre/post internet. There’s enough new and weird features that non-separated comparisons with pre create more misreading than insight. Best to acknowledge the qualitative shift in context.


