Everything's a cult now
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Evolution of Shared Reality
In the 20th century, national newspapers and a limited number of TV channels created a shared reality among millions of people, forming a monoculture. The rise of the internet, however, has shattered this shared reality, leading to a fragmentation of culture into various mini local realities. This shift suggests that the era of monoculture and a unified shared reality may be over, pushing society back towards a more fragmented state similar to the pre-20th century period.
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