Culture survives because it changes. A culture that cannot change is not being preserved. It is being embalmed.
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the trouble with monoculture
Tag: cultural identity
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the gap is the product
Advertising sells illuminated absence, incentivising us to pursue idealised selves that remain permanently, profitably out of reach.
Fear of others is not finally fear of difference, but fear of the gap through which the self discovers it was never solid, never alone, and never entirely its own.
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In a world that has deeply and intractably commercialised the concept and experience of individuality, the very last thing actually required of us is to be different. We are sorted and we voluntarily self-sort into labels and categories, compressing ourselves into neat, data-ready boxes that serve as containers for self-managed subscription into vast machines of […]
