I’m talking about how pockets and islands of cultures pop up everywhere within these settings, how Cyberpunk as a whole does away with national borders and lets everyone from everywhere and anywhere suffer equally.
And we’ve kinda’ missed the mark on that, as now culture is instead becoming eclectic. We don’t have pockets of cultures, we are steadily pushing toward having a single culture, a mass of haphazard associations and little comprehension of meaning.
That’s a very fair point, and I agree that cultural dynamics aren’t uniform. However, the largest beacons/propagators of culture which exist have demonstrated this tendency to run the tender bits through a blender together, then spray it out indiscriminately, because it’s making them money. And, from a functional perspective, it is an effective means of doing so, because we mass-consume Content nowadays.
Honestly, this is a bit paradoxical on my end, which is why I may have expressed myself abstractly - I tend to prefer flexibility over specialisation, but this is one aspect in which I see more value in specialisation rather than flexibility. Basically, I think we’re losing repositories of undiluted culture over time, and I guess I’m just really scared of plastic…