Yeah, the fracturing is a screwy thing. To an extent, it’s something the exploiting classes manufactured and benefited from (along racial lines, gendered lines, and more). But by this point, it seems like it’s something of a runaway monster that has taken on a life of its own, probably in large part due to the empire being in decline, along with the vilification of an alternative (though I have some hope in the numbers sympathetic to socialism and communism, whether or not they all fully understand what it is).

It’s like there’s something of a “whose podcast do you listen to” thing now (figuratively speaking and sometimes, literally) where things can be fractured to the point of differing views based on which niche piece of media somebody ingests on a regular basis. Like the antithesis of people having a holistic worldview. It makes me think we really need more work done on dialectical materialism and making it easier for people to grasp it and apply it to organizing and worldview because that stuff really helps with a more holistic view. Even with my (I feel) elementary grasp of it, it is still a night and day difference vs. trying to understand the world through a lens of individualism and idealism.