We all make deposits, as opposed to withdrawals, from the global brain that is society. Does that mean that we won't have incredibly deep disagreements? Of course not. We always will. That's sort of the dea of progressing as a society. And democracy, as far as i understand it, requires that diversity. It requires variation and diversity of thought that's the whole basis of democratic functioning. Sometimes i do wonder if fashion people dismiss the idea that fashion affects anything outside of fashion. But there is also thinking fashion. In anthropology, this is called cultural inheritance. Eans that jeans are not the only source of transmission of information from one generation to the next. We have the kind