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"Historically, society evolves in cycles from one
governed by imagination,
superstition, and
custom to one governed by rational understanding and that, in turn,
declines into a society governed
by imagination." - Giambattista Vico
| "A
participatory society would be one that has the same basic institutions at its
core, of course with variation from case to case, as any other participatory
society – and those would be the core institutions of polity, kinship,
community/culture, economy, and connections to ecology and other nations." -
Michael Albert |
Culture may be defined as: thought
patterns and beliefs
socially transmitted behavior
patterns
lifestyle formed by
aesthetic and
intellectual training
'civilization' at a particular
stage of intellectual and
artistic
activity
predomint
attitudes and behavior
that characterize the functioning of a group
Early American
culture honored the value of hard work,
integrity,
courage and
'character' - a function
of individual moral fiber.
American culture evolved
with coming of the Eastern European Jews.
Modern
American antiCulture
honors the
personality of celebrity:
superficial charm,
artificial
charisma, political correctness,
appearance of
wealth, and transhuman
immortality through allopathic
intervention.
Embedded deep within
the American psyche is technological utopianism.
"Many fresh college graduates
knowledge of reality is remarkably limited.
The notion of learning
from a tight knit family community
is just part of what has passed from what is now called
American culture." - Frederick
J. Parrella
social is defined as:
convivial
activities
relating to communal
living
living together
in an amalgamation
natural evolution of groups of
people
symbiotic union through
mutual intercourse
of or relating to
human societies and their
members
time spent marked by
friendly companionable
relations
an
informal social gathering, as of the members of a church
congregation
a party of humans
assembled to promote sociability and communal activity
Cultural conditioning is the social process in which authority
figures such as parents, professors, politicians, religious leaders, peers, and
the media define cultural values, beliefs and ethical systems.
Cultural
conditioning can easily short circuit critical thinking.
The best cure
for cultural conditioning is immersion in an alien culture.
Keep in mind that the manner in
which behavior is approved or disapproved is directly related to taboo within
the culture.
Anything outside expectations is interpreted as strange,
absurd, or a threat.
Ethnocentricity perceives current
mannerisms as "the correct
way".
"No person can develop without being influenced
by other people and their personalities,
or by the values imbued by his
civilization and his moral and religious traditions."
Andrew M.
Lobaczewski
An irony of modern life is
that, in spite of spectacular increases in
material abundance and
centuries of technological progress, hunter-gatherers, people who have lived
with almost no material possessions, have enjoyed lives in many ways as
satisfying and rewarding as lives led in the industrial North.
Neoclassical economic
theory justifies the existing economic
organization, resource
use, and extremely unequal distribution of
wealth.
The melting pot is a
metaphor for a
heterogeneous society becoming more
homogeneous.
Through Alchemy
the different elements "melt together" as in the crucible creating
an amalgamated harmonious alloy.
A homogeneous
society becomes more heterogeneous through
the influx of foreign
elements with different cultural background which creates cultural disharmony within the
previous culture.
The melting-together metaphor,
amalgamation, was in use by the 1780s.
1882 PT
Barnum writes to US consuls in countries around the world hoping to acquire
what he refers to as "specimens" from different cultures and races to exhibit
to the public.
He ultimately contracted with people from Asia,
Australia, Europe, the
American West, and Africa - some against
their will - to be part of the circus's sideshows exhibited in the animal
menagerie.
1908 The exact term "melting pot"
comes into general usage in the US after it was used as a metaphor describing a
fusion of nationalities, cultures and ethnicities in the play of the same
name.
The owners of
America are looking to make the people into titanium.
Mythology
relates to personal
apperception and personal
worldview.
Individual
mythology grounds you in the noumenon giving
you an abode.
Every
individual has a unique personal mythology.
Culturally specific
mythology is in relation to
cultural conditioning.
Culturally specific mythology
grounds you in the culture.
Mythology intends to break
the boundaries of the
rational mind.
Broken rationality
allows examination of reality from
a new
perspective.
Mythology relates
- time/place/culture
- specific wisdom of life.
The
intent of mythology is to
integrate the individual
into the culture.
Indigenous mythology integrates
an individual into the field of nature.
Wetiko cultural mythology makes
Mother Nature
an enemy of mankind.
Mythology connects
conscious thought
and subconscious
emotion.
Mythology attempts to
unite rational thought
with mystical vision.
Culturally
specific myths create culturally specific
overlays.
The same power that
animates our lives animates all the life on Earth.
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forged a populace unable to discern propaganda from reality and that this has
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agents who wish to foist a corrupt version of reality on the
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collapse of morals, the elevation of self-centered behavior and the destruction
of global ecosystems. Civilization is based on coöperation.
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in the ability to deceive the populace in general through corporate media by
pressing emotional buttons which have been preprogrammed into the population
through prior corporate media psychological operations. The results have been
the destruction of the family and the destruction of social structures that do
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