Culture, as a force, is ...

( )/a(n):

Thought: Made from Thought - that’s its primary constituent - which is currently in a Chicken n Egg relationship with Action

dynamic library of accumulated consciousness: a recording of observed manifestations of human reality - i.e History. As with clocks/calendars, it is a measurement of Time. We measure ourselves against it - it measures us, shapes us. It can also bend Time

communal mental-image: that amounts to a mind-computer-game - with rules - generated by people. But culture is not a real person as such - similar, but different, a virtual version of a real one. Reality is the interface image between perception/projection

living entity: same as any other bio-mass - follows the laws of DNA - wants to exist - extend. To that end - it consumes. To do that ~~efficiently~~efficiently, it cooperates, organizes - forms functional societies - same way cells do - except it doesn’t die like we do

manipulatable commodity: which has currency - human power. If there was no culture, there’d be no power. Culture is the magic ingredient that makes the metaphysical world go round

two-way street: - if Culture’s dynamic is functioning healthfully, it influences you - but you can influence it back. The Taiwanese indigenous buluo community is one good example - traditional & modern versions - where the village has real power. It was under attack by Big-culture - fought through it in the 1990s - still going strong today. It’s also at the heart of Aristotle’s polis thinking - the first anti-globalist - he knew the dangers of power centralization having lived in the time of Alexander the Great. The ideal state, Aristotle said, is one encompassed by the range of the town-crier’s voice. That way, if you’ve got a good idea, or a helping hand, or a grievance, you can input it meaningfully into your culture . Try doing that in the New Normal - see how you get along. Indigenous (& non) communities, self-sustaining ones, are vestiges of Aristotle’s polis. If the power/internet goes off in a drawn out war, which it will, these communities will come roaring back into style