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> something changed It's worth considering what changed. Demographics changed, but we've always had some kind of mixed cultures and ethnicities. The history
by xapata 6y ago
> something changed
It's worth considering what changed. Demographics changed, but we've always had some kind of mixed cultures and ethnicities. The history of it has been an expansion of who gets to be the "majority". Like Rome redefining who is a citizen.
Maybe it's broadcast media, but there's been national publications since the founding of the US.
Looking back to Antiquity, our situation doesn't seem so abnormal. I think it's just the ebb and flow of how groups of people interact with each other.
- DubiousPusher 6y agoIt's amazing how old our problems are. By that I mean how much they come up throughout history. - Who counts as a citizen - Who has the land - Who gets welfare/benefits - Who is anathema - Who mediates power (bureaucrats? nobility? monarch? people?) It's like a laundry list of issues that bagged ancient Rome, enlightenment France and late Tsarist Russia. EDIT: It blew my mind when I actually started to read up on the French Revolution and found that besides what to do with the Monarchy, the issue that really divided them was Universal Manhood Suffrage. For years I had been fed the vague notion that some quasi-social-utopian issues were at the heart of it. But they really just couldn't agree on whether all men should be allowed to vote.
- eldavido 6y ago"Don't study liberal arts. It's a huge waste of time."
- mistermann 6y ago"And especially not philosophy or psychology - only losers who can't cut it in STEM take those courses". - Me, not all that many years ago