Comments on: The Real Culture War http://theryanking.com/entries/2005/01/01/the-real-culture-war/ Music and Technology, but NO TECHNO! Thu, 17 May 2012 06:17:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Adam http://theryanking.com/entries/2005/01/01/the-real-culture-war/#comment-54 Adam Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:42:08 +0000 http://theryanking.com/blog/archives/2005/01/01/the-real-culture-war/#comment-54 I've just always solved the problem by being a metaphysical presentist. Belief there is no such thing as "future" and whala! Problem solved! I’ve just always solved the problem by being a metaphysical presentist. Belief there is no such thing as “future” and whala! Problem solved!

]]> By: Ryan http://theryanking.com/entries/2005/01/01/the-real-culture-war/#comment-49 Ryan Sun, 02 Jan 2005 17:52:38 +0000 http://theryanking.com/blog/archives/2005/01/01/the-real-culture-war/#comment-49 Paul- I think your characterization of the divide would mesh quite well with what Brin and I are saying. Paul-
I think your characterization of the divide would mesh quite well with what Brin and I are saying.

]]> By: Paul M. Jones http://theryanking.com/entries/2005/01/01/the-real-culture-war/#comment-48 Paul M. Jones Sun, 02 Jan 2005 15:03:10 +0000 http://theryanking.com/blog/archives/2005/01/01/the-real-culture-war/#comment-48 <a href="http://www.andrewsullivan.com/index.php?dish_inc=archives/2004_11_14_dish_archive.html#110045948199660522">Andrew Sullivan</a> links to a map that points out the rural-vs-urban character of voting that Brin talks about. It's really quite a stunning visual representation: colored red/blue county-by-county, but each county also has a vertical population tower. With that in mind, Sullivan points to an author who says that Democratic voters live in an <a href="http://www.urbanarchipelago.com/">urban archipelago</a> and that the county-by-county breakdown (not the state-by-state) is a far more useful tool. Even the so-called "blue states" are revealed to be dominated, vote-wise, not by the majority of the acreage, but by the mass of voters congregated within cities. Another way of looking at the old left-right divisions is "dynamism" vs "stasim" (as in "stasis" or staying the same, not state-ist). For more about the dynamist outlook, see "The Future and Its Enemies" by Virginia Postrel; I think she makes a convincing case. Andrew Sullivan links to a map that points out the rural-vs-urban character of voting that Brin talks about. It’s really quite a stunning visual representation: colored red/blue county-by-county, but each county also has a vertical population tower. With that in mind, Sullivan points to an author who says that Democratic voters live in an urban archipelago and that the county-by-county breakdown (not the state-by-state) is a far more useful tool. Even the so-called “blue states” are revealed to be dominated, vote-wise, not by the majority of the acreage, but by the mass of voters congregated within cities.

Another way of looking at the old left-right divisions is “dynamism” vs “stasim” (as in “stasis” or staying the same, not state-ist). For more about the dynamist outlook, see “The Future and Its Enemies” by Virginia Postrel; I think she makes a convincing case.

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