The activist community

[David Horn]

(03-19-2021, 04:45 AM)Captain Genet Wrote:

(03-16-2021, 02:59 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(03-16-2021, 06:10 AM)Captain Genet Wrote: ... During the 1T everybody who tries to debate cultural or moral issues will be seen as a laggard who has yet to recognize the truth of Inclusivism and wants to bring back the culture wars.

That may be a bit optimistic, since it hasn't happened to any great extent in the past.  Yes, the 1T will be more communal, but 'more' is about it.

Isn't cultural conformity another hallmark of a 1T?

But you're right that "more" is guaranteed. In the 2030s we'll make it to Mars and start the colonization process. We will also probably a proof of primitive life on the Red Planet, and of more complex lifeforms in another solar systems. This is what will make people excited when politics calms down.

Conformity is not universality.  Even as a child, I recognized that the popular culture was not the whole culture.  Most of the opposition to plain-vanilla sameness came from the artsy types, who felt chained by lack of imagination in the grand community.  They were the ones who lit the fire that became the 2T.  I knew many of local examples, and, as I learned later, they were only a small sample at that.  The Bohemian Underground, for lack of a better name for it, was actually a substantial percentage of the whole -- hidden in plain sight.