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Authors like Brand and Toffler understood the rise of what today we call "libertarianism," with its cross-pollination between cultural trends ("do-it-yourself" rock and roll, homebuilding, computer building, etc., symbolized by the Whole Earth Catalog, the Sex Pistols, and the Apple II) and economic trends (the rise of the entrepreneur as hero, the "brand of me," and ever-lowering barriers to the flow of capital from market to market).
But ecumenical cross-pollination has led to at least as significant a "Catholicization" of Protestant worship.
Though in the short run influences of languages and dialects on each other may result in distortion and ridiculous or embarrassing absurdities, the longterm fruit of linguistic cross-pollination appears to be enrichment, of which the English language provides a shining example.
I'm not sure if the correspondents realize that the Hindu concept of Brahman has been around considerably longer than Sullivan's cross-pollination of something like the following: a powerful (yet devout) bearded man, a cool breeze on a clear summer night, a John Lennon tune, and the Lion King.