How much of this is real or pre-meditated is my question. Seems like there is a complete agenda to perpetuate this divide to me, a real “don’t look behind the curtain” aspect to it all. And that technology is the virus perhaps being used as the superspreader of that division?
As best as I have been able to figure that out over all the years so far, is that I think it has a lot to do with where someone grew up and how they were raised. Most of the people I've ever known who grew up in suburbia or exurb-forested-horse-country (my upbringing) or rural areas have a real difficulty understanding or relating to people who grew up in even light urban areas and have nothing really in common with people who grew up in the high density, urban cityscapes. And, it seems to be reciprocal. We've just become two truly different cultures in the same country and neither group has much of an interest in the other.
Heck, even in my case, I left downtown Chicago in 2004 after 10 years there partially because I was so sick of the city life. I've spent the past 21 years living in the more suburban-like confines of Newport Beach and now Palm Beach -- and in both cases, I next to never went into Los Angeles or Miami again because I just find it all so unpleasant and unrelatable.
All evidence the past 30 years indicates an ever-greater polarization between the urban populace and everyone else (part of what I'm documenting in my "Red Land, Blue Flame" series here on Substack, and that isn't just going to spontaneously start to tend down -- it's just going to keep escalating and one day, we likely will have some sort of Second Civil War. That's just what history teaches us, if we're open to that grizzly reality.
Being prepared for potentialities for that and other crisis situations is what two of my companies help families with, and I have a 105,000-word book setting out a constitutional restoration blueprint currently under scholarly review for publication on July 4, 2026. So, this is a topic I've thought about and discussed with so many people for 30 years now (if not even with my parents when I was a child).
All that being said, your observation about how tech fuels all this is spot on -- it has battered down the barriers to entry of thought and opinion distribution for everyone, while also tremendously speeding up the time "news" (whether accurate or fake) takes to go around the world. And, the media industry really changed in the 1980s under Ted Turner's stewardship at CNN. The constant barrage of 24/7 news makes a big difference, and that too isn't going to change.
Color me Don Quixote, perhaps because I grew up in both settings simultaneously I see things with a little more hope, but I agree some kind of revolution, even through a civil war is needed. Has been my whole life really… Just not at each other like it seems is the plan or the current course
If we all could just break some fucking bread together!
Great article! This is exactly what’s happening. I thought we’d reached a tipping point last November but after the election I realized we only had kindling for a fire.
At this point I wish we could fast forward through the inevitable.
You should subscribe to my new, little channel on here. I’m going to be publishing a new article every week in the “Red Lands, Blue Flame” series the next 12.5 months. July 4, 2026 comes soon, and we need constitutional restoration badly.
You might also enjoy playing my little parlor game in my Notes on here every 7-10 days where I ask “Where are we today relative to 1776 and 1861?” It’s quite fun!
How much of this is real or pre-meditated is my question. Seems like there is a complete agenda to perpetuate this divide to me, a real “don’t look behind the curtain” aspect to it all. And that technology is the virus perhaps being used as the superspreader of that division?
https://open.substack.com/pub/christophernicholaschapman/p/hefner-cronkite-and-rogan-walk-into?r=2bnro3&utm_medium=ios
That's a very thoughtful question, Christopher.
As best as I have been able to figure that out over all the years so far, is that I think it has a lot to do with where someone grew up and how they were raised. Most of the people I've ever known who grew up in suburbia or exurb-forested-horse-country (my upbringing) or rural areas have a real difficulty understanding or relating to people who grew up in even light urban areas and have nothing really in common with people who grew up in the high density, urban cityscapes. And, it seems to be reciprocal. We've just become two truly different cultures in the same country and neither group has much of an interest in the other.
Heck, even in my case, I left downtown Chicago in 2004 after 10 years there partially because I was so sick of the city life. I've spent the past 21 years living in the more suburban-like confines of Newport Beach and now Palm Beach -- and in both cases, I next to never went into Los Angeles or Miami again because I just find it all so unpleasant and unrelatable.
All evidence the past 30 years indicates an ever-greater polarization between the urban populace and everyone else (part of what I'm documenting in my "Red Land, Blue Flame" series here on Substack, and that isn't just going to spontaneously start to tend down -- it's just going to keep escalating and one day, we likely will have some sort of Second Civil War. That's just what history teaches us, if we're open to that grizzly reality.
Being prepared for potentialities for that and other crisis situations is what two of my companies help families with, and I have a 105,000-word book setting out a constitutional restoration blueprint currently under scholarly review for publication on July 4, 2026. So, this is a topic I've thought about and discussed with so many people for 30 years now (if not even with my parents when I was a child).
All that being said, your observation about how tech fuels all this is spot on -- it has battered down the barriers to entry of thought and opinion distribution for everyone, while also tremendously speeding up the time "news" (whether accurate or fake) takes to go around the world. And, the media industry really changed in the 1980s under Ted Turner's stewardship at CNN. The constant barrage of 24/7 news makes a big difference, and that too isn't going to change.
Is that helpful? Great question! Steven
Color me Don Quixote, perhaps because I grew up in both settings simultaneously I see things with a little more hope, but I agree some kind of revolution, even through a civil war is needed. Has been my whole life really… Just not at each other like it seems is the plan or the current course
If we all could just break some fucking bread together!
Great article! This is exactly what’s happening. I thought we’d reached a tipping point last November but after the election I realized we only had kindling for a fire.
At this point I wish we could fast forward through the inevitable.
You should subscribe to my new, little channel on here. I’m going to be publishing a new article every week in the “Red Lands, Blue Flame” series the next 12.5 months. July 4, 2026 comes soon, and we need constitutional restoration badly.
You might also enjoy playing my little parlor game in my Notes on here every 7-10 days where I ask “Where are we today relative to 1776 and 1861?” It’s quite fun!
Good night!
Here the new article that I published this evening:
https://stevenscesa.substack.com/p/red-land-blue-flame-the-growing-siege
Spread the word!