We will always be in that feedback between creating order and seeking to transcend it.

Those enforcing conventions and those trying to see beyond them.

The problem is the rate is going exponential.When trains were first being intoduced, people would get vertigo, from traveling faster than a horse.

I think cancel culture is the result of younger generations having to come to terms with their individuality, before they can grow into it. So we have this focus on very primal issues, like skin color and sex, where the ideal becomes an absolute. Unfortunaely ideals are subjective, while absolute is universal, so it becomes this enforced blandness.

Which is not to say people haven't been discriminated against, because of such issues, but focusing on such basics ignores the actual power dynamics and plays into a top down system of divide and conquer, rather than facilitating the bottom up organic growth it presumes to encourage.

We have too many wolves running around in sheeps clothing and it does get confusing.

It's a global Tower of Babel.