[JoeAltmaier]

You missed by about 20 years, but yeah. And no, I watched the same things as my parents on an old B&W TV every evening. This fracture has not been going on forever; its not healthy or natural; its only happened since TV hit the mainstream. For the first 1M years we all heard the same stories; we shared a culture.

[wmeredith]

Gonna need a citation there, buddy. Before TV it was radio, before radio it was movies, before movies it was Balzac, and so on and so forth...

[JoeAltmaier]

So the slide goes a few more decades? I agree, that's probable.

[pjc50]

For the first 1M years we all heard the same stories; we shared a culture

Pretty much any anthropologist is going to tell you that culture used to be hyper-local. And still is, in remote areas.

[JoeAltmaier]

Across generations, was the point.

[yincrash]

I would argue that culture is _way_ more homogenous now than it ever was in the first 1M years.

[JoeAltmaier]

Across generations? That was the point.