I think the proliferation of at-home entertainment greatly accelerated the destruction of regional culture. There is so much atomization inherent in people sequestering themselves away to watch Netflix and play videos games all day. How does that not annihilate any sense of neighborhood or community? How many people today have no idea who lives across the hall or across the street? And it starts so young now that we have multiple generations of people never knew anything else.

How do you defend your culture in the face of such atomization? Look at the peoples who don’t have the “benefit” of such hedonist escapism. They still have the capacity to project positive cultural force. All they have to do is resist the siren call of modern media, and their cultural dominance is assured. So many in the west paint these “backward savages” as stupid - and they frequently are - but they have evolved a strategy that will see them through. So who is the true retard?

I think the proliferation of at-home entertainment greatly accelerated the destruction of regional culture. There is so much atomization inherent in people sequestering themselves away to watch Netflix and play videos games all day. How does that not annihilate any sense of neighborhood or community? How many people today have no idea who lives across the hall or across the street? And it starts so young now that we have multiple generations of people never knew anything else.