A good measure of cultural fragmentation is how far on average a joke has to travel out of context for it to cause offense When jokes hit a mean free path of one degree on social graph you’ve hit anarchy
But that's not in itself a reason the more complicated boundaries are bad. Just a problem to be solved.
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I can see a comparison to massive economic global growth. Poverty is way way down world wide, while the Us middle clsss is struggling. I’d argue that overall economic freedom is up, for the extremely wealthy and the poorest of the world.
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Exactly. That's the right analogy here. Hans Rosling graphs basically. Substitute identity groups for nations for the global map.
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