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24 Post author: Dorikka 09 September 2013 03:32AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 14 September 2013 02:07:40PM 0 points [-]

Well, he did not say that “awesome” is a one-place word. ;-)

Comment author: Ishaan 14 September 2013 04:50:31PM *  -1 points [-]

IF that's the case, perhaps the thing to "bottle up and export" is the idea that people should be pro-active about getting involved with groups which share common interests and values to themselves.

Modern life puts a lot of diverse groups into contact with each other. Not only that, the information age makes it so that some people have culture imprinted from written material and no one in their geographic range shares their values. The internet can re-create the ancestral conditions of homogeneity.

I'm all for conservatives having their church groups and stuff if it makes them happier and healthier, even if I don't agree with the values around which they congregate. But I'd be somewhat concerned about intensifying polarization of attitudes if this were to become a thing.