03-01-2019, 10:22 AM
(02-28-2019, 10:21 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: Also, back to the OP: I think the culture wars are resolved. Homosexuality and marijuana are now widely accepted all over the Anglosphere, while hard drugs are now fortunately out of fashion. The sex-positive movement has mostly died out, feminists are now firmly against porn and prostitution, and their arguments are sometimes similar to the old Christian Right. Millennials generally don't tolerate cheating on your husband or wife, although they delay marriage to give themselves time for some sexual self-discovery. Weird Satanic and Hindu-inspired cults of the last 3T are also mostly gone.
The current clash of ideologies is tribalism vs cosmopolitanism rather than Rajneesh vs Jesus.
We'll have to see if their fascination with autocrats leads to a backlash against the religious right and other groups currently backing these dictators-in-waiting. I think that will tell us a lot more than shifts in the culture, that has been all over the board in the last few decades. AGW may be a stronger driver than anything the culture merchants might employ. The potential for disaster tends to focus the mind.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.