The globe is transitioning toward an American-led noosphere now---the aff’s diversity creates cultural fragmentation.
Ronfeldt & Arquilla 18 (David, Independent Analyst, retired analyst for the RAND Corporation. John, phD in political science from Stanford University, Faculty at US Naval Postgraduate School, coined the concept of “netwar.” “The Continuing Promise of the Noösphere and Noöpolitik — Twenty Years After.” May 2018. p 20. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3259425 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3259425 //shree) Note: Teilhard is one of the people who came up with the concept of noosphere
What would a full-fledged noosphere encompass? What ideas, values, and norms — what principles, practices, and rules — should it embody? We presume these would include much that America stands for: openness, freedom, democracy, the rule of law, humane behavior, respect for human rights, a preference for peaceful conflict resolution, etc. — all that the noosphere’s original proponents said should and would be embedded. In addition, a fullfledged noosphere would require an interactive organizational and technological foundation to uphold its ideational essences.
However, the world is not yet in the age of the noosphere, but rather in an era of transition that is far from smooth or peaceful. When we first started writing about the noosphere and noopolitik, we figured we were witnessing halting steps forward. Yet it’s the steps backwards that are most evident today, especially in the behavior of some of the world’s most powerful states, as discussed above.
No methodology exists for assessing the status of the noosphere from strategic standpoints; nobody has yet seen to that potentially valuable task. But what we can observe is that the noosphere is in terribly fragmented disarray in the very country, the United States, that should be taking the most initiative to uphold and foster it.
Much of America’s evolving noosphere has become highly compartmented — broken up into what are called information silos, filter bubbles, and echo chambers, tantamount to volatile micro-climates. Many of these “compartments” and “cultural units” (Teilhard’s terms) are engaged in “ruthless struggle” (Vernadsky’s words), far from being ready for the “fusion” that Teilhard forecast, or to “open up and finally link up their spouts, spreading a layer that covers the Earth” as Le Roy depicted. Indeed, America’s noosphere is presently so fragmented, and many of its “units” are so polarized and tribalized, that it could be said that a war — a culture war — is underway for control of the noosphere. And it reflects the essence of noopolitk, for it is a war that will be decided by whose story wins.