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Is Culture Dying?
When the storytelling in a culture goes bad the result is decadence
from Present Shock by Rushkoff, Douglas
Alex Dobrenko added
Here is where culture enters the picture. I mean“culture” in its anthropological rather than artisticsense. What values and practices can hold people to-gether as the institutions in which they live fragment? My generation suffered from a want of imagination inanswering this question, in advancing the virtues ofsmall-scale community. Co
... See morefrom The Culture of the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett
Emi added
- And so anything that influences the culture can have a great impact on the world and on people's financial interests, and we're going to see more and more sophisticated efforts from all kinds of actors to do so systematically and deliberately. This is the darker conclusion of the importance of non-monetary social motivations - they create the battl... See more
from Endnotes on 2020: Crypto and Beyond by Vitalik Buterin
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