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Social Fragmentation Resembles The Melting of Ice – And We May Be Near Tipping Point – ScienceAlert
We live in an age of division. Of red hats versus blue votes. Black lives versus blue lines. Green energy versus gold purses. Society, it seems, is melting like…
We live in an age of division. Of red hats versus blue votes. Black lives versus blue lines. Green energy versus gold purses. Society, it seems, is melting like some proverbial iceberg.
It’s a metaphor that extends beyond the poetic. A model of social cohesion created by researchers from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna draws a comparison between phase transitions in materials and our own ‘bubbles’ of communal interaction.
Their model shows that society is at risk of approaching a tipping point…
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