Re-read your Feb 2022 Ribbonfarm post on Divergentism. India came to mind as a candidate where Divergentism flourishes: there seem to be multiple functioning world machines, with the plough and gaushalas of the Bronze Age machine, the extractive Zamindari centered feudal machine and the modern world machine in urban areas, including towns such as Jamshedpur (and IIT campuses). And one could argue that the nationalist current in Indian politics of the last few decades is late modern - it is a performative zombie in a divergentist arena. Groups and people in India talk amongst themselves and past each other, most of the time not particularly getting to much convergence. But at the same time, they seem to get along not so badly. So does this description fit your Divergentism proposition (the economist Galbraith described it as a state of functioning anarchy)?
Modi-ism is definitely Indian late modernism. The sangh pair at was always that way but until modi it was a larp on the sidelines. The new Dhurandhar movie is like cultural arrival of modi-ism into the mainstream.
Re-read your Feb 2022 Ribbonfarm post on Divergentism. India came to mind as a candidate where Divergentism flourishes: there seem to be multiple functioning world machines, with the plough and gaushalas of the Bronze Age machine, the extractive Zamindari centered feudal machine and the modern world machine in urban areas, including towns such as Jamshedpur (and IIT campuses). And one could argue that the nationalist current in Indian politics of the last few decades is late modern - it is a performative zombie in a divergentist arena. Groups and people in India talk amongst themselves and past each other, most of the time not particularly getting to much convergence. But at the same time, they seem to get along not so badly. So does this description fit your Divergentism proposition (the economist Galbraith described it as a state of functioning anarchy)?
Modi-ism is definitely Indian late modernism. The sangh pair at was always that way but until modi it was a larp on the sidelines. The new Dhurandhar movie is like cultural arrival of modi-ism into the mainstream.