Through all the angry tweets, op-eds, and "Cancel" campaigns, few ask about where these culture wars come from and whether we can end them.
While a complex social event is never the product of just one factor, culture wars generally emerge from one group of people using some form of power to pressure another group into changing its beliefs or behavior.
An ice cream culture war could break out, each side pressuring the other to conform to its beliefs.
The catalyst of a culture war is the pressure exerted by one group on another to adopt its ways of thinking and acting.
It is no coincidence that now, when the power of the state is greater than ever, culture wars are raging all around us.
Culture wars fester within such narrowing policy confines because values and beliefs are either represented or excluded.
Culture wars are not created solely by the state, but a state with too much power makes them inevitable.
https://mises.org/wire/government-hidden-hand-directing-culture-wars
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