[MoC] What is 'Culture'?
Kurt Tucholsky
- wikipedia
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury
“I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.”
― Peter Ustinov
“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
― Alan Wilson Watts
“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed
“Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.”
― Alan Moore, 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom
“The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.”
― Plato, The Republic of Plato
“We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to 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.”
― Terence McKenna
..after reading all this, i must admit i have no idea what culture actually really is
😉
greets
Kurt Tucholsky, MoC
Comments
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I think culture is first and foremost a frame of reference and a landmark for society as well as societys product.
Now if you ask what society is, it's most likely a frame of reference for culture and a cultural product. 😉
thats why you are in the Ministry of Community not Culture 😉
community = culture 😉
Culture is the creative progress if a generation changes some older cultural works into their modern thinking and so on for thousands of years. If you take peoples culture away you´re going to destroy their idendity and roots.
eAustria is a kind of culture by itself, because a group of people builded a imaginary nation and create a imaginary future.
one miscredit only: you quoted plato 😃
..platos politics, metaphysics, epistemology always remind me of how some people think nowadays: kind of 2000 years late 😉
so he shall not be missed in such a quotelisting!
Something to do with penicillin isn't it?
lol @kretschmar