Culture is an ecosystem.

Each component from climate, biology, and institutions, to technology, policy and leisure, are all reacting to and informing the next.

For every push, there’s a pull, and for every action, a reaction. And more often than not, contradictions or polar opposites in culture are related to one another.

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The thing we call culture is always an aggregation of individual human behaviors, and if taste were the mere product of random idiosyncrasies and irrational psychologies, culture would display no patterns, only noise. The fact that preferences in these disparate fields follow a similar rhythm of change suggests there must be universal principles of

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