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Thanks. If you're part of the culture, you're part of a cult. That's a shallow

distillation of an idea I recently encountered. The idea was that our culture has become

so fragmented, mostly because of the internet and the ways we've shaped our lives around it, that almost all of us are acting like we're in some kind of cult.

The way we consume content, the way fandom works,

the way fandom works, the ways we sort ourselves into tribes and camps,

even the way lots of industries work,

including the news business, it all has shades of cultiness.

Whether that sounds bogus or compelling to you, there is, in any case, something worth thinking about here.

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