This copy/paste is an eloquent way of showing how far the left has their head up their asses
```I don't want to pigeonhole a segment of youth population. My own experience in a privileged suburb that embraces some diversity, and also as a former teacher in urban Chicago with many active connections to former students leads me to conclude that the overwhelming use of personal communications technology has something to do with a lack of coherent culture and counter-culture at present. I think of it as a prolonged sea change in how people organize themselves.
XXXXXXX makes a good general point, however I am sadly in disagreement with the idea that there isn't still an overarching mainstream to counter. I don't know their experience, but I do mix among a variety of people with different class backgrounds. There are many working class white communities that continue to embrace a very traditional American culture. These people still think classic rock is as relevant as anything else for instance. It's a very stuck kind of crowd IMO. Many of the people I know from this background voted for Trump and it's not because they are overtly racist or unintelligent and I don't really know if they regret the decision. (Clearly I did not nor am I saying here that such a choice was wrong or right. I'm just using this as a current point of reference regarding a kind of cultural coherence.) I feel these people, among others, are holding on to a past ideal and are not comfortable with cultural change.
In some ways, comm tech has flattened the landscape. It's used everywhere in more or less the same kinds of ways - and very few of those ways actually open up the lines of communication between people of different backgrounds and beliefs. It could, but I don't see it so much.```
