In the face of complexity caused by global integration people are turtling into the culture of their micro-ecosystems. And perhaps rightly so. Local conditions

In the face of complexity caused by global integration people are turtling into the culture of their micro-ecosystems. And perhaps rightly so. Local conditions might beg for this behavior as being the most efficient. Eg: If you have a majority culture of people who are anti-gay, than trying to forcefully apply globally gay friendly laws is just going to cause confusion and chaos. To be fair to Toffler, I don’t know if this could be obvious except after the fact. To be less fair, I am not sure I ever saw the value of vaguely trying to predict the future with overly broad linguistics. Better I think would be to have a slightly ambitious and more humanitarian view of the future and figure out how to get their as fast as possible. Baby steps. Such an approach is accountable and has goals which can be reasonably achieved. Anything else, IMHO, is just sci fi.