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Culture is defined as:
All the
knowledge and values
shared by a society.
The
tastes in art and manners
that are favored by a
social group.
A high degree of
taste and refinement formed by
aesthetic and
intellectual
training
The breeding of
animals or growing of
plants, especially to produce improved
stock.
The predominating attitudes and
behavior that characterize
the functioning of a group or organization.
Development of the
intellect resulting in
enlightenment from such
training or education.
A particular
civilization at a particular stage of
intellectual and
artistic activity and the works produced by
it.
The act or
practice of cultivating, or of preparing the
earth for seed and raising
crops by tillage; as, the
culture of the soil.
The
act of, or any labor or means
employed for, training, disciplining, or refining
the moral and
intellectual nature of man; as, the
culture of the mind.
The state of being cultivated; physical
improvement; enlightenment and
discipline acquired by
mental and moral
training; civilization; result of
civilization; refinement in manners and
taste.
The totality of
socially transmitted behavior patterns,
beliefs, institutions, and all
other
products of human work and
thought patterns considered as the
expression of a particular period,
class, community, or population.
"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
American culture." -
Frederick J. Parrella Early American
culture honored the
value of hard work,
integrity, courage.
Early
American culture
honored what was termed
character, which was a function of one's moral fiber.
Modern American culture
honors personality, which is a
function of what one projects to others.
The modern
American culture
honors charm, fascination and
likability.
sub-culture
fundamental cultural assumptions
Part of the American fable is the
American myth of progress.
The idea of
progress is embedded within the American psyche.
As technology
progresses more and more "problems" will be "solved" by new technological
breakthroughs.
Social progress occurs when crime goes down and a large
percentage of the population accept currently popular cultural
myths.
"Progress (in the sense we know it) is only meaningful if we are
ascending from a lower to a higher state - from the natural realm to a separate
human realm. Extrapolating backward, we must believe that original nature and
original human nature are bad. Hence, the
goal of control: technology to control nature,
culture to control human
nature.
If original human nature
is bad then our natural selves are bad too. The psychological "technologies" we
use to achieve self-control
are legion, internalized from earliest childhood: guilt, willpower, discipline,
shame, motivations, threats, rewards.
We must govern and control
ourselves, just as we must govern and control nature through technology to
make it good - an ordered garden as opposed to an inhospitable wilderness.
Indeed, as the uncivilized human is in a state of nature, the two statements of
inherent badness (of wild nature and uncontrolled human) are identical." -
Charles
Eisenstein
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This website defines a new religious
ideology to which its author adheres. The author feels that the falsification
of reality outside personal experience has created a populace unable to discern
propaganda from reality and that this has been done purposefully by an
international corporate cartel through their agents who wish to foist a corrupt
version of reality on the human race. Religious intolerance occurs when any
group refuses to tolerate religious practices, religious beliefs or persons due
to their religious ideology. This web site marks the founding of the religion
aptly named The Truth of the Way of Life - a rational religion based on reason
which requires no leap of faith, accepts no tithes, has no supreme leader, no
church buildings and in which each and every individual is encouraged to
develop a personal relation with God through the pursuit of the knowledge of
reality in the hope of curing the spiritual corruption that has enveloped the
human spirit. The tenets of The Truth of the Way of Life are spelled out in
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their religious beliefs in America is considered a “hate
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This web site in no way condones violence. To the contrary
the intent here is to reduce the violence that is already occurring due to the
international corporate cartels desire to control the human race. The
international corporate cartel already controls the world central banking
system, mass media worldwide, the industrial military entertainment complex of
America and is responsible for the collapse of morals, the elevation of
self-centered behavior and the destruction of global ecosystems. Civilization
is based on cooperation. Cooperation does not occur at the point of a
gun.
American social mores and values have declined precipitously over
the last century as the corrupt international cartel has garnered more and more
power. This power rests in the ability to deceive the populace in general
through mass media by pressing emotional buttons which have been preprogrammed
into the population through prior mass media psychological operations. The
results have been the destruction of the family and the destruction of social
structures that do not adhere to the corrupt international elites vision of a
perfect world. Through distraction and coercion the direction of thought of the
bulk of the population has been directed toward solutions proposed by the
corrupt international elite that further consolidates their power and which
further their purposes.
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