I'm an emotional dude

[Flint]

I think many of us, such as emotional dudes, may be experiencing anomie.

And since the rate of changes to human culture is exponentially accelerating, as observed by Ray Kurzweil and others, I don't know where this is taking us. I don't know if social norms are something which will be possible to continue existing.

[Beest]

Originally Posted by Flint

I think many of us, such as emotional dudes, may be experiencing anomie.

And since the rate of changes to human culture is exponentially accelerating, as observed by Ray Kurzweil and others, I don't know where this is taking us. I don't know if social norms are something which will be possible to continue existing.

or the range over which we measure our society and judge norms by are so much smaller, soceity is tolerant of many micro norms. Instead of norms being the country you live in, or city or town, it might be within your household, or the peope you share an office with, or in an online gaming guild or forum. Instead of having to fit into larger societal norms, it's easier to drift around and find a micro society where your internal norms are the group norms.
And at the extreme, the size of the group is 1 you are your own norm.