2016 helped me properly define anomie: illiquidity of meaning due to concentration &/or demonetization of its cultural currency instruments
kinda like memetic/genetic drift among diverging, fragmenting populations; continents--> archipelagos
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This idea of illiquidity relates to the question of "do people view themselves as a single polity," which I've often come back to.
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Anomie seems closely entangled with people no longer seeing themselves as a single polity, with joint success or failure. Similar idea?
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