culture

To restore cultural innovation, he proposes, paradoxically, that we once again need to become intimately familiar with all that has come before:

In the past, conservatives treated the canon as a sacred and complete archive, something to be preserved rather than expanded. This is precisely why the avant-garde sought to destroy it. But in truth, even

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Our moment is a war of competing myths.

The future belongs to those who write it — as always — for better or worse.

Culture, particularly our media, has become so participatory, that everyone is self-nominating and submitting their own myths into the zeitgeist. And as a result, individuals play an increasingly powerful role in shaping narratives.

There is no one “singular culture.” Personal perception is the other key variable here.

Attempting to define, quantify and strategize around the zeitgeist is a game of tag. That’s what we’re after. That’s the Sisyphean task. It’s utterly daunting and exhausting, but that challenge is also where the opportunity (and fun) lies.

Culture is an ecosystem.

Each component from climate, biology, and institutions, to technology, policy and leisure, are all reacting to and informing the next.

For every push, there’s a pull, and for every action, a reaction. And more often than not, contradictions or polar opposites in culture are related to one another.

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these “cultures” are ever-evolving . (Latin ‘cultura’ = grow, tend, cultivate, to care)