100 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 23 Jun \ on: What is culture? ideasfromtheedge
For a long time, I've thought that our culture was basically thrown out of equilibrium and it's going to have to find a new one (or many new ones).
Like you say, it's a complex system of complex systems, so there's really no telling what norms and shared beliefs will ultimately be settled on.
It does seem to me that this out of equilibrium stage is manufactured...
There is no one, specific way of predicting where it will be going, but my thinking is that the sane, old will inform the new, especially since we'll need that contact with intuition and knowledge to survive, both mentally and physically with all this bioterror from evil entities like Pfizer and Monsanto!
I used to read Robert Greenes books until I had internalized them, they're good for some of this :-)
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Yeah, it's definitely worth looking at which of those old norms used to keep a lid on some of these current problems and thinking about how to restore something like them.
I'm sure there was a manufactured component to the global cultural destruction, but I also think it was sort of inevitable. This is a very different world than the one traditional cultures evolved in. It stands to reason that they would need to adapt to these new circumstances.
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