What if culture is the problem?
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What if culture is the problem?
Our culture no longer acts as a cultures should. It now creates more noise than system. It is too heterogeneous to have a center. It is too voluminous to organize. It is too rapid to mature. Once reliable diffusion “delivery systems" are broken. This means we cannot find the talented people, good ideas, and big solutions that once came to us n
... See moreGrant McCracken • The Gravity Well Effect
It is pretty hard to address the meta-crisis when a meaning crisis and culture war is happening. If many people are living in a way that does not engender a sense of meaning or are too busy yelling at each other via memes, how are we going to address our greatest collective challenges?
Peter Limberg • Becoming a Live Player
Stuart Evans added
Culture Is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism
Culture: An Owner's Manualculture.ghost.io
The "culture" of a society isn't a blob of random human activity, but an orderly ecosystem arising from the interactions between particular subunits. To maintain ecosystem health, we must reject the cynical “poptimist” framing of culture as a mere vehicle for entertainment and commerce and instead promote the benefits of constant cultural refresh.
Culture: An Owner's Manual • Culture Is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism
Agalia Tan added
most important we need to put our big picture capability to work on the problems that now haunt us. Most of these problems are systemic. Their causes are deep and multiple.
Grant McCracken • What if culture is the solution: Big Pictures 005
Keely Adler 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 moreRichard Sennett • The Culture of the New Capitalism
Emi added
Culture, in compelling but unspoken ways, dictates the proven, acceptable methods by which members of the group address recurrent problems. And culture defines the priority given to different types of problems. It can be a powerful management tool.
Clay Christensen • How Will You Measure Your Life?
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