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Culture is not your friend
| You're literally copypasted this post.
It doesn't change the fact it's a good post - being stuck in one culture just makes you a drone - but put more effort into your posts.
| You have no idea what culture even is, do you?
| OP, mayhaps you thought that bad traditions = culture? That is not entirely true.. culture can have bad traditions and poor wisdom, but Culture also is the culture that people have against bad traditions.
You get what I mean OP?
| True OP, i even invented an anti-culture flag that we can all use to represent our--
| >>800857
I do. Culture, after all, has given us law, science, ethics, philosophy and made possible “all the achievements of talent and of sanctity”. I agree that we do not wish to abolish culture altogether, since some of it is valuable. Many preliminary attempts have been made to distinguish those parts of culture which are positive and inspiring from those which are misguided and cancerous.
| A convincing and final answer about how to distinguish between those parts of culture which are worth preserving and those which should be forsaken, is however nowhere to be found.
| The victims of culture include all those who are subjected to its dogmas, values and ideologies: From the young man going to kill and die in a war against people he never met in the name of culture, to those who limit and suppress their sexual identity and preferences in order to conform to culture’s moral dictates, as well as to those whose aesthetic and philosophical sensibilities are shaped by culture’s limiting constructs of expression and thought – in short, everybody.
| By embracing cultural forms such as ideologies, trends or brands, we are giving up on the precious opportunity for individual expression inherent in human existence. By defining ourselves through a predetermined concept or structure, saying for example:” I am a Marxist” or “I am an Apple fan” – one gives up his chance for self-definition.
| Rececting culture transplants the individual back into the body, to the naked facts of its biological existence, and exposes the common perception of reality as a cultural construct.
| >>35c8ee Ok now I agrew completely with OP, we should really make a way to identify these general bad traits of culture, and discourage them for everyone.
We all can see the toxic effects of these bad traits of culture in our society nowadays.
| That's quite a Ted-talk op has made. The use of culture doesn't entirely fit this argument. IMO its institutions that and corporations that degrade society not culture, culture molds itself to society.
Also the usage of self labels is to communicate personal ideologies not a strict self definition depending on per person's bias.
| You're not talking about culture, but about essentialism. The fact that people are defined based on some attributes (nationality, favourite phone brand, football team, whatever) instead of their personality, and so they try to conform to and defend those attributes and the groups behind them, rejecting change and improvement.
It is true, yes, that essentialism is a big part of many societies today. Not really a matter of culture though.
| >801320
This, thanks for explaining better than I could.
| >>801217
>kill in the name of culture
You must be utterly retarded to think this, un-less it's about the middle east, shit then it's really fitting!
| >>801320 >>801326 Well, essentialism, and the whole concept of viewing groups of people through labels & stereotypes isn't really something that can be avoided.
Physiologically, our brains are only capable of holding & viewing around 150 distinct 'people' as real. There was a couple interesting studies on that back around the start of the last decade.
So when you're forced to interact with a social group larger than 150, your brain automatically sorts them into stereotype>
| >>801403 groupings. That allows you to consider their existence and motivations as a 'single' being on a subconscious level.
| >>801403 I'm mostly talking about people "essentializing themselves" and considering that they have to conform to the groups they put themselves in. And I do believe that this could be avoided, unlike grouping other people as you said.
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| Culture is for other people's convenience and the convenience of various institutions, churches, companies, tax collection schemes, what have you. It is not your friend. It insults you. It disempowers you. It uses and abuses you. None of us are well-treaded by culture.
Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.