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entirelyuseless's avatar

"Do we suppose that when a sub-culture member converts to the dominant culture, the same kind of zealotry effect happens as we see in converts to a religion?"

No. Because people convert in that direction because they notice that overall the subculture is not socially approved. That is why it is a subculture.

When someone converts to the subculture, on the other hand, they do it in spite of noticing that it is not socially approved. Which means they have extra strong motivations for adopting it, which are not necessary when converting to the dominant one.

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Morgan Allen's avatar

That's one possibility. The other possibility is that the dominant elite culture will attempt to smash and dismantle the insular culture/s that threaten it, even if the elites have no viable replacement strategy at all. The power of spite should not be underestimated.

I'm also completely baffled as to why Hanson thinks that polyamory and swinging are going to rescue elite fertility when so far as I can tell he hasn't presented a lick of evidence to suggest there's a correlation.

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