Micro-communities as civilisational restructuring

The internet is splitting into two layers: a public layer (broad, fast, algorithm-friendly) and a private layer (small, intentional, alignment-seeking). The "metasthetic" — short-lived identity groups forming around visual style rather than ideology — represents a new mode of social organisation where belonging is aesthetic before it's political. Subcultures haven't died; they've fragmented below the resolution of broadcast media. This is not a trend. It is a phase transition in how human being ...