In the Industrial Age humans were treated as interchangeable parts when they weren’t really, in the digital age, they are treated as special snowflakes when they’re really quite interchangeable
As quality of life and living standards rise, people get more alike, and it feels traumatic
But people struggling to survive end up with differentiated psyches shaped by the peculiarities of their struggles
What about shared disgusts or shared fears? Not quite the inverse of shared comforts, but there are both homogenizing effects (consensus about the bogeyman) but with more differentiated solutions
Shared disgusts are a luxury of privilege
You’ll notice ideologies based on them draw from relatively prosperous people not destitute
Cf Eric Hoffer True Believer
Good point. Do shared disgusts serve as a way for privileged people to spice up their otherwise comfortable lives? It seems like they arise in different ways in different forms of social privilege throughout history. Japanese disgust is different than English, etc.