Hey everyone!
Life, work, and grad-school prep pulled me away for a while, but I’ve still been developing a lot of these ideas in the background and I want to start re-engaging here consistently again.
One thing I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is how modern people may increasingly belong to competing “Cultural Information Networks” instead of one shared national culture.
Historically, most people inherited:
- religion,
- traditions,
- values,
- identity,
- and worldview from local institutions and family/community networks.
Now a huge percentage of that transmission is happening online through algorithms and digital tribes.
I’m curious:
Do you think it's more advantageous to be United under one robust culture or have multiple cultures negotiating survival amongst each other under a veil of a shared reality?