“It is a highly valued function of society to prevent changes in the rules of the many games it embraces... Deviancy, however, is the very essence of culture.

James Carse • Finite and Infinite Games Quotes by James P. Carse

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Fuller decries specialization as the enemy of synergy and proposes a reframing of culture that could “get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.” At its epicenter he places the value of wide curiosity and generalist knowledge.

The Marginalian • Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists

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

Richard Sennett • The Culture of the New Capitalism

Creators should be in the business of eliciting and manufacturing subculture.

Jarrod Dicker • Breaking the Fourth Wall: The Business of Media Subculture

Similarly, cultural aberration is only intelligible in the context of an existing social system.

Whitney Phillips • This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture

cultures: all societies must resolve a small set of questions about how to order society, the most important being how to balance the needs of individuals and groups.

Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

No effort at creating group value can be successful without some form of governance. People are basically good, when they are in circumstances that reward goodness while restraining impulses to defect.

Clay Shirky • Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

After all, the point of culture is often less the content than the sharing of the content. Entire communities, substantial, lasting communities, spring up from shared shows to say nothing of the tribal pleasures of shared lifestyle. The failure of sharing comes from a failure of culture and that makes culture a problem.