Glen, Ha! That's pretty good. Yes, I do use a Gmail email client, in-part because I haven't yet figured out registering on the list-server. I suspect there are natural limits to humans becoming some-kind-of homogenous biofilm, and that it is in some ways evidenced by the differences found internally here as-well-as in the differences I find between northern New Mexico and Olympia Washington, say. Also, it doesn't particularly seem an affluence thing. Protest and discourse around race and culture are baked into the Santa Fe scene. You can ask people about Onate or the various pueblo revolts and get an informed perspective, not because of affluent privilege, but because it is culturally important to the people here. I contrast this with where I was raised in Ohio. It wasn't until recently when I read Blood Meridian that I had ever heard mention of the Gnadenhutten massacre <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnadenhutten_massacre>. OTOH, I had friends who witnessed the Kent State shootings <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings>, friends who blame the police for the death of D.A Levy <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._A._Levy>, and who keep count of the number of times the Cuyahoga River caught fire. From my perspective, it takes a lot of energy and resources to force life into a state of homogeneity. My bets are on continued cultural diversification, on into the future.
Jon
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