Liberal Totalitarianism.

Social Science suggests that the politicization of everything destroys the spread of ideas.

//Loosening these tight group boundaries means that people's next-door neighbors may have different jobs or levels of education, but they may still have similar politics or recreational activities. These similarities allow people in different social groups to encourage the adoption of a new complex idea, take neighborhood recycling as an example, which can then spread to other neighborhoods and social groups.

But when group boundaries are eliminated entirely, people have almost nothing in common with their neighbors and therefore very little influence over one another, making it impossible to spread complex ideas.

"There's a belief that the more that people interact with strangers, the more that new ideas and beliefs will spread," Centola said. "What this study shows is that preserving group boundaries is actually necessary for complex ideas to become accepted across diverse populations."//


Interesting that this is the world created by "Liberal Totalitarianism," which seeks by seeking to politicise everything creates a Manichean world of Good v. Evil based on "race" or "tolerance" without the nuance of intermediate groups that aren't permitted to dispense with such ultimate orientation.

Football, for example, used to be something that could be watched by Democrats and Republicans, people of all races, Rotarians, and Elks, but as soon as there became an ideology based on the notion that America was an evil, racist country where there was a conspiracy of police officers hunting down "unarmed black men" football players either had to subscribe to this ideology or leave.

The net result is that football is no longer a social organizing principle where ideas could bleed across. Instead, it became a megaphone used by the Left to drown out any message other than the dominant Leftist message.

And America became poorer and closer to the edge because of it.