Charles C. Mann’s 1493: The “Columbian Exchange”, The Homogenocene, And White Guilt
15th September 2011
Steve Sailer is always worth reading.
Strikingly, Mann defines globalization as bringing about the dawning of the “Homogenocene”—the era of cultural and even biological homogenization. Proponents of globalization like to congratulate themselves on fostering diversity—that great talisman word of our age—the reality is that the world is becoming, in many ways, more homogeneous. Diets, for example, became more similar around the world in the wake of Columbus.
There are, by nature, two kinds of diversity: micro and macro. Globalization drives the world toward micro-diversity, but away from macro-diversity. Practically every strip mall in Los Angeles, for example, features a Mexican taco restaurant, a Cambodian donut shop, and an East Asian nail salon. Each strip mall is therefore diverse within itself. Yet, even the most ardent diversiphile has to admit that every strip mall seems an awful lot like every other strip mall in L.A.
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One definition of “dystopia” is “a society characterized by human misery, such as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.”
For example, an American city run by Democrats. Detroit comes immediately to mind, as does Los Angeles.