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> we're slowly, but steadily entering the age where humanity is truly no longer divided along country, language or culture lines. Not exactly sure how you reac
by hyperbovine 10y ago
> we're slowly, but steadily entering the age where humanity is truly no longer divided along country, language or culture lines.
Not exactly sure how you reached this conclusion in an age when overt racism is being plainly embraced by large swathes of the electorate throughout Europe and North America. I don't feel like we've ever been more divided in my lifetime.
- maxerickson 10y agoDoes covert vs overt really matter to measuring the division?
- Analemma_ 10y agoIt's possible for both of you to be right. I don't agree with everything Ross Douthat says, but he had an interesting column a little while ago claiming that the non-nationalist "global elite" constitute their own tribe, which has identical characteristics regardless of where in the world they are: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/opinion/sunday/the-myth-of-cosmopolitanism.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/opinion/sunday/the-myth-of.... It's possible that this tribe is growing, but is not currently all-encompassing, and the reactions against it are the movements that you are referring to.