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OfflineKickleM
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does culture only work with belief?
    #19290541 - 12/17/13 08:47 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

If everyone within a culture stops buying into the cultural story, what happens?

This is strictly a thought experiment. I see no way this could ever happen. But I'm curious what others think humans are behind the cultured veneer.


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Re: does culture only work with belief? [Re: Kickle] * 1
    #19290697 - 12/17/13 09:32 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Liberation?


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Re: does culture only work with belief? [Re: Kickle]
    #19290852 - 12/17/13 10:19 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I imagine a new culture..:shrug:


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Re: does culture only work with belief? [Re: Kickle] * 4
    #19291051 - 12/17/13 11:17 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

widespread weirdness ensues.. like unkempt tufts of hair suddenly sprouting from our animal skin, people begin to grow in peculiar ways.. they sway to strange asynchronous tunes, their eyes grow dull and peer off to some impossible distance.

odd runes are left scratched in the dirt, codes tapped out from inside walls, dialects proliferate at an insane pace, entire languages localized to single human beings... it may actually already have happened you guys, and only culture would have us believe anything otherwise


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Re: does culture only work with belief? [Re: quinn]
    #19291674 - 12/18/13 03:10 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

culture is
a bit like a self winding watch,
in that while it is in action,
it charges its main spring(s).


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Re: does culture only work with belief? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #19291929 - 12/18/13 05:46 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Culture works in spite of disbelief.  We have been trained and regimented over so many years, it's habit.  We can try to overcome the habit, but we are more than addicted to a substance.  Other than we must eat more pablum every day in order to be satisfied. 



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Re: does culture only work with belief? [Re: LunarEclipse] * 1
    #19292211 - 12/18/13 08:03 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I think no matter how disbelieving/rebellious someone may be, they are still buying into substantial elements of their culture.


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Re: does culture only work with belief? [Re: Brian Jones]
    #19292218 - 12/18/13 08:05 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Right, rebellion is a cultural myth. :haha:  Once you're in you can't get out. :evil:


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Re: does culture only work with belief? [Re: Icelander]
    #19292261 - 12/18/13 08:18 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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Right, rebellion is a cultural myth. :haha:  Once you're in you can't get out. :evil:






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Re: does culture only work with belief? [Re: Kickle]
    #19292470 - 12/18/13 09:13 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I don't think it's possible for humans to exist in a cultural vacuum.  It's a fundamental part of what makes us human.  Iconoclasts break with old cultural beliefs all the time and something new always rushes in to fill the void.  As long as humans are alive and communicating with one another there will be some kind of culture created between them.


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Re: does culture only work with belief? [Re: Kickle]
    #19292502 - 12/18/13 09:21 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

That's like asking what would happen if everyone suddenly stopped using language.  The human brain cannot function at all without a meme-structure to wire it up.  To abandon culture -- really defined as the set of basic ideas of a particular social group -- simply isn't possible, and doesn't make any sense even as a thought experiment.


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Re: does culture only work with belief? [Re: quinn]
    #19292553 - 12/18/13 09:38 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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widespread weirdness ensues.. like unkempt tufts of hair suddenly sprouting from our animal skin, people begin to grow in peculiar ways.. they sway to strange asynchronous tunes, their eyes grow dull and peer off to some impossible distance.

odd runes are left scratched in the dirt, codes tapped out from inside walls, dialects proliferate at an insane pace, entire languages localized to single human beings... it may actually already have happened you guys, and only culture would have us believe anything otherwise




Haha that's great man. For the record I speak kicklanese quite well.


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Re: does culture only work with belief? [Re: Kickle] * 1
    #19292667 - 12/18/13 10:12 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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That's like asking what would happen if everyone suddenly stopped using language.  The human brain cannot function at all without a meme-structure to wire it up.  To abandon culture -- really defined as the set of basic ideas of a particular social group -- simply isn't possible, and doesn't make any sense even as a thought experiment.




Yeah i agree mostly. The point of this thread, for me at least, was to notice that there is no human separate from culture. That there is nothing of note to see aside from culture.


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Re: does culture only work with belief? [Re: Kickle]
    #19292724 - 12/18/13 10:33 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

True indeed. Well, doesn't that let us off the hook in a way? We are made what we are before we even know the deed has been done.  Relax and float down stream. :satansmoking:


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Re: does culture only work with belief? [Re: Kickle] * 1
    #19292803 - 12/18/13 10:58 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I wonder, where culture does start ? Is belief really needed ? Or can one see an ant hive as cultural as well ?
I mean, there are different human cultures on planet earth, even if diversity even here is falling free fall.
What makes an belief a belief ? Isn't it the surrounding context of the environment combined with genetic urges and abilities ?
I think a belive is a part of imagination, so I wonder if imagination is necessary for culture ? Does an ant has some kind of imagination ?
Oh I wonder...what a wonderful world :sun:


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Re: does culture only work with belief? [Re: Kickle] * 1
    #19293359 - 12/18/13 01:28 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

klick lekik *thank you*


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Re: does culture only work with belief? [Re: Icelander]
    #19294530 - 12/18/13 06:23 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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True indeed. Well, doesn't that let us off the hook in a way? We are made what we are before we even know the deed has been done.  Relax and float down stream. :satansmoking:




Yeah id say so. Genetics factoring in as they do. I'm not sure where the wiggle room is.


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Re: does culture only work with belief? [Re: Kickle]
    #19298033 - 12/19/13 01:30 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I'm not sure I understand what you're asking...what do you mean by "cultural story"? Are you talking about religion, or other forms of culture?  I'm not sure what you're post has to do with "belief," or if you mean belief in a religious way or not.  Could you clarify?


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Re: does culture only work with belief? [Re: clam_dude]
    #19299042 - 12/19/13 05:24 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I mean all forms of culture. I mean belief as faith (in culture as truth).


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Re: does culture only work with belief? [Re: Kickle]
    #19299520 - 12/19/13 07:14 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I'm still not sure what you mean - are you saying we need "faith" to have culture?

You say you mean "all forms of culture"...that would include art, literature, etc, as well as religion (if you want to call that culture).  So some forms of culture need faith I suppose, and a lot of them don't. 

I'm just not sure what your original point is - what do you mean by "cultural story"?


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