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What signs do you see that we’re headed toward a new, stable equilibrium, instead of just catastrophically destabilizing?

jackcosgrove 4y ago
The emergence of a shared global culture, especially online, and especially spoken in one language, is momentous historically. After thousands of years of separation by geography, which produced cultural differentiation and foreignness, we are now starting to come together with one culture and one language. This is a stable equilibrium because it's global rather than local. That's the view from the cockpit. My view from the ground also suggests it's not catastrophic. I'm an early digital native. Twenty-five years after access to the internet, I now have a spouse whom I met online and two children. I work remotely and spend most of my waking time online. I have no friends outside family, which could be better but it's not catastrophic as shown by my ability to create a family and carve out some life for myself. I've adapted. Maybe I am just an optimist. Really the status quo ante was untenable and we must move forward and make the best of what we have.
- bergenty 4y ago
  There is no shared global culture forming online. It’s deeply fractured multicultures that have very little in common with each other. You assume everyone is in your bubble but everyone has their own bubble and the cultures are in direct opposition.
- mchaver 4y ago
  There is a large online community that participates in English across many nationalities, but there are also many vibrant online communities that do not use English and are compromised of a smaller subset of nationalities. It seems like these are really hidden away from monolingual English speakers. For those who speak English or want to learn it is a great opportunity to reach across national identities, but , at the same time, I don't really foresee the other communities disappearing.
- lm28469 4y ago
  Man you really haven't visited much of the internet, it's communitarianism land. We all agree on fluffy cats and rick rolls but that's no culture, once you start digging it's the wild west, if not the crusades And if anything most of it is extremely US centric. I think you're in a bubble inside of a bubble and are completely oblivious to most of what's outside of these bubbles, and that's a feature of internet as we built it, a personalised content distributor that mostly show you what you want to be shown The collapse of old systems isn't creating a new more global and encompassing system, it's creating very highly individualistic groups/tribes mentality, as, if not more, fragmented than before > I work remotely and spend most of my waking time online. I have no friends outside family If this is the future you're trying to sell us... how bleak

jackcosgrove 4y ago

The emergence of a shared global culture, especially online, and especially spoken in one language, is momentous historically. After thousands of years of separation by geography, which produced cultural differentiation and foreignness, we are now starting to come together with one culture and one language. This is a stable equilibrium because it's global rather than local. That's the view from the cockpit. My view from the ground also suggests it's not catastrophic. I'm an early digital native. Twenty-five years after access to the internet, I now have a spouse whom I met online and two children. I work remotely and spend most of my waking time online. I have no friends outside family, which could be better but it's not catastrophic as shown by my ability to create a family and carve out some life for myself. I've adapted. Maybe I am just an optimist. Really the status quo ante was untenable and we must move forward and make the best of what we have.

bergenty 4y ago
There is no shared global culture forming online. It’s deeply fractured multicultures that have very little in common with each other. You assume everyone is in your bubble but everyone has their own bubble and the cultures are in direct opposition.
mchaver 4y ago
There is a large online community that participates in English across many nationalities, but there are also many vibrant online communities that do not use English and are compromised of a smaller subset of nationalities. It seems like these are really hidden away from monolingual English speakers. For those who speak English or want to learn it is a great opportunity to reach across national identities, but , at the same time, I don't really foresee the other communities disappearing.
lm28469 4y ago
Man you really haven't visited much of the internet, it's communitarianism land. We all agree on fluffy cats and rick rolls but that's no culture, once you start digging it's the wild west, if not the crusades And if anything most of it is extremely US centric. I think you're in a bubble inside of a bubble and are completely oblivious to most of what's outside of these bubbles, and that's a feature of internet as we built it, a personalised content distributor that mostly show you what you want to be shown The collapse of old systems isn't creating a new more global and encompassing system, it's creating very highly individualistic groups/tribes mentality, as, if not more, fragmented than before > I work remotely and spend most of my waking time online. I have no friends outside family If this is the future you're trying to sell us... how bleak