Culture is an established way of living and thinking. Cultural assumptions go largely unchallenged as many people do not know what they think, and almost no one knows why they think what they think. We inherit a – by virtue of our birth in a nation, state, region, and family – a way of seeing the world. This view of the world is largely obscured from consciousness. But it remains a grand why moving beneath the mainstream current of thought.
Culture
Intellectuals: Rousseau (Episode One)
The first of a series of videos on Paul Johnson's book "Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky".
This episode looks at the...
Culture
Redemptive Trilateral Cultures
American culture at-large has confused facts with truth, truth with opinion, and opinion with intolerance and bigotry. When facts become bigoted opinions, the truth...
Culture
Set Adrift In Culture
Many people do not know what they think. Almost no one knows why they think what they think. We inherit a - by virtue...
Culture
Convergence of Concern and Influence
When I was twenty I saved up and bought a round-trip ticket to Rome. I had never been out of the country and wanted...