[4thwaywastrel]

I don't think the posted conception of the culture war as a "holding pattern of conflict" is incompatible with the idea that it's also a legitimate outpouring of the voice of the disenfranchised.

Some might say that we've become stuck in that outpouring, and enamoured with conflict rather than any kind of coherent vision for how to be.

[chadcmulligan]

Could be, maybe these conflicts are fundamental to being human and no resolution is possible? This is the new normal?