Definition of "monoculture" []

• The cultivation of a single crop on a farm or in a region or country. (noun)
• A single, homogeneous culture without diversity or dissension. (noun)

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• "So, if the "monoculture" is responsible for the current recession, doesn't that also imply that that same monoculture is responsible for the vast and incredible wealth, and subsequent increases in freedom, health, and human rights, produced over the past, say, 100 years?"
• "Being a standalone literary monoculture is too dangerous, too fragile."
• "The monoculture is ignoring the gnats buzzing around the rotten fruit."