> The problem is that society is becoming increasingly stratified, and large swaths of it don't accept differences of opinion This sentence started so well! Th

> The problem is that society is becoming increasingly stratified, and large swaths of it don't accept differences of opinion This sentence started so well! This fixation on opinion is really strange to me. There are real, "stratified" power differentials in our country that have nothing to do with opinions. Radical Islam was not created by people talking nice about their Syrian neighbors. But plenty of people have been killed by nutty trolls inciting nuttier Muslims to violence. IMO stratification of opinion is always well downstream of the stratification of something more elemental: ethnicity, sex, mode of production, etc.