Constituencies

It was really eerie that Mike came to the same place that I did regarding the next evolution of Lifestyle. It suggests to me that there is validity to what he wrote because there is support coming from multiple diverse sources. I began my observations with Amazon.com’s suggestion list when you buy a book. What is fascinating is to think that in some dimensions we belong to one constituency but are excluded from others. But on other dimensions we reconnect with the excluded ones. This marketing technique has been fascilated by database programs and powerful search engines. Suddenly lifestyle becomes “lifestyles” and we become the locus of interacting and often competing/contradictory lifestyles. Much like String Theory in physics, the opening up of this idea as a cultural organizational model suggests deeply irrational and bizarre conclusions. But one conclusion that is apparent to me is that the rift produced by industrialization and the atomizing of traditional family structure has, in fact, been repaired at a much more profound (and less obvious and biological) level.