[drwiggly]

This is postulating cultural breakage is in some part due to the latest round of high achievers being detached and not paying attention to the community at large. Its an American right of passage "I got mine".

I'd say its more influenced by political media being turned into a team sport to compete with entertainment. Why do people fall for this and turn a blind eye to hypocrisy of their chosen team? Why do people need to be attached to a group? Why is the group more important then their supposed values?

Most of this supposed culture war will doom human endeavors for the complete futility of winning something that doesn't matter. I suppose the new dark ages are needed if humanity must cling to the group even when its idiotic.