Derek Thompson on what the end of monoculture could mean for American democracy.
Is damn near everything a cult now?
That’s a glib distillation of an interesting idea I recently encountered. The basic thesis was that the internet has shattered the possibility of a monoculture and the result of that is a highly fragmented society that feels increasingly like a loose connection of cults stacked on top of each other.
To say that everything is a cult is a bit of an overstatement...