Quote Originally Posted by Philippus Flavius Homovallumus View Post
The point is that the social fabric is already rather thin. About the only thing most people can agree on these days is not killing each other and in America even that's not a given.

No shared culture, no shared religion... Some countries like the UK have a monarch to rally behind but that's an inconsistent glue at best.

Basically, our lack of extremism makes us vulnerable to extremism. Kinda "virtue is a double-sided sword" situation.
Your description in the first chunk seems to be a general description of human society in all its forms.

What exactly makes pluralistic societies any weaker than homogeneous ones? Are we to believe that violence and tension in society only became a thing about when 20th century multiculturalism arrived?