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this makes me think: I'm not a history buff, but a few years ago I read The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant, and it changed my mind about income inequality—I used to think, "As long as the lives of the lowest are improving, why does the gap matter?" But then the Durants... I really appreciate you coming back with an acknowledgment of the sincerity of SuziQ's original post. I understand that there's a risk of over-nuancing things... nowhere is this more apparent than with children.... This is like setting the whole farm on fire just because you fancy some roasted chicken...spoiler alert: there are no silver linings... Of course, they will open a handful of factories in the mid West and they will be very loud about it.... - onAs cities like Austin cater to coastal transplants, their unique culture gets diluted, becoming more generic. Is cultural entropy inevitable, or is there a counterforce?byantonbrevde...
I think part of the draw of places like Japan is they still feel very much their own culture, where as even farflung places I've been like Taipei or Seoul seem to be moving in the direction of some emmergent global tastemaker.... - lyssa...
- onAs cities like Austin cater to coastal transplants, their unique culture gets diluted, becoming more generic. Is cultural entropy inevitable, or is there a counterforce?by
McDonald's was the first flag-bearer for industrialization/standardization of food, and I guess at least a major scapegoat for this kind of monoculture globalization generally?... - onAs cities like Austin cater to coastal transplants, their unique culture gets diluted, becoming more generic. Is cultural entropy inevitable, or is there a counterforce?by
I fully agree; and your last sentence has me brainstorming potential countervailing forces. I'm going to throw them out without yet knowing if I actually think they'll move the needle at all: space colonization: when it takes 22 minutes for light to travel from Mars to Earth, I...