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Originally Posted by jalfrezi
Things that are more important to how they feel about their lives than celebrities and crap TV are, such as their wages, social status and relationship with their employers.
It relates to the idea of guilds that goes back a thousand years.
Then perhaps we should redraw the map on a guild basis.
Though the things you mention aren't the most important things to how people feel about their lives, it's mostly things which are primarily outside the scope of legitimate politics.
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Originally Posted by Morphismus
You really underestimate social status and education level here. People which big differences in that respect won't read the same books, watch the same TV programs or laugh about the same jokes necessarily.
Agreed, up to a point, though some countries have more class divisions than others. The point is that what shared culture does cross the social boundaries helps to lubricate the society in which we all have to get along with each other, whereas that doesn't work across borders.
A good example is that in the UK you can collect a lot of money (relative to the seriousness of the problems) for charities to spend on UK problems, much less for problems in Africa and nothing at all for Portuguese charities - despite all the hipsters saying how "European" they feel, there is no sense of solidarity with people elsewhere in Europe.
Last edited by LektorAJ; 08-10-2016 at 01:26 AM.