Rules Of The Game #27: Is Diversity Diverse?

[koganbot]

Latest column, where I discuss the "diversity" issue I raised here last week, and I add a new twist.

The Rules Of The Game #27: Is Diversity Diverse?

The new twist is this question: Doesn't cultural diversity, like biodiversity, depend on a certain amount of isolation, so that dominant modes of thought don't come in and wipe out everything else?

Oh, and I quote you all (or some of you, anyway).

EDIT: Here are links to all but three of my other Rules Of The Game columns (LVW's search results for "Rules of the Game"). Links for the other three (which for some reason didn't get "Rules Of The Game" in their titles), are here: #4, #5, and #8.

UPDATE: I've got all the links here now:

http://koganbot.livejournal.com/179531.html

Comments

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

...not as extensively knowledgeable, I should say (not "interested"), though I'm not sure this is actually the case with rolling country. I would guess that xhuxk listens to more music than most of the people on the thread do, though, and he has the added bonus of being good at analyzing it, too -- that's a part of collecting that usually isn't as high-stakes (it's more about knowing how to accumulate, not analyze, the difference between collecting rare books and writing reviews of rare books).