2019-05-17T23:48:15Ztag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/thread/post/one-of-those-bizarre-unexplainable-thingstag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/786/30582019-05-17T23:48:15ZDad-o<p>Many places used to have common cultures that allowed them to make intelligent references with one another. Think the UK in the time of universal education in Shakespeare, Shelley and the Bible. In this modern world of fractionalism (a.k.a. diversity, a.k.a. cultural chaos) it is more and more the case that one person's culture is another's wasteland. So, yes, ignorance is often bliss. I am thinking more and more that our current lack of shared cultural experience and understanding is the second coming of the Tower of Babel.</p>tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/786/30572019-05-17T21:27:29ZDiane Villafane<p>&quot;Ignorance is bliss&quot;?</p>tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/786/30562019-05-17T20:19:18ZKathy Lewis<p>I was already pretty clueless about pop culture, but 9 years in Gambia made it completely hopeless.</p>