... as people grouped by geographic proximity needed to accommodate a variety of interests and unite behind a broader set of values and common humanity.

Lifestyles and ideology are prepackaged online, "it sands a lot of the rough edges off..."

Helen Lewis was asked by Sam Harris what the effects of today's Internet are and presents a couple of interesting ideas. People aggressively self-sorting themselves based on very specific interests with outsized memetic value is something that would not have happened before this... 🧵