Usually upbeat John Robb feels a bit down on our social future:

"It's becoming clear that the US doesn't have a shared narrative anymore ... that provides us with us the basis of fictive kinship... An understanding that we are better off together than apart.

Where did our fictive kinship go?

We killed it. We didn't alter it, adapt it, or evolve it. We strangled it and the rising sociopolitical incoherence we are seeing is the result.

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2018/05/lost.html