What civilization is... is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each others shoulders and kicking each others teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation and yet you can stand back and look at this planet and see that WE HAVE the power, the money, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. BUT we are lead by the least among us, the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary... we are lead by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons...
Culture is not your friend! Culture is for other peoples convenient and convenient of various institutions, churches, companies, tax collection schemes, what have you. It is not your friend, it insults you, it dis-empowers you, it uses and abuses you, none of us are well treated by culture. Yet we glorify the creating potential of the individual, the rights of the individual, we understand the fell-presence of experiences and what is most important: The Culture Is a Perversion! It fetishaises objects, creates consumers mania, it preachers endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of swirly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, mean processes...
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