"A common pattern in the history of globalization has been: first, you have a fairly isolated culture with a distinct character; then it is plugged into the world market and, as more resources flows in, experiences a cultural flourishing—more music, more art, more local handicraft; until the region has been mined of diversity, converged to the tastes of the world market and becomes rather duller. We’ve used up most of these geographical sources of diversity now."

Another really well written piece by Henrik. https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/insular-groups

I think about this often. The world has gotten smaller, more homogeneous, less interesting.

I wonder if this is something that we can recover or is it something that, once lost, is lost forever?