How to move culture Culture binds a person's identity to the meanings that surround them. This is a dueling affair. Meanings come from activities of the mind and body that evolve over time - actions, relations, habits and purposes. Identity comes from the fixed stories around our radius of concern - family, friends, groups, communities, nations and worlds. Culture becomes a persistent snapshot of this confluence. By definition, cultures are hard to displace. The coordination requires scale, time and resilience. Some of us will create new culture by infusing new meanings into the current culture. This arises from natural extensions and elaborations of the periphery - activities that are allowed, but not commonly encouraged, appreciated, or looked upon as worthy of our attention. Humanities and Arts lead in this way, but with difficulty in the extreme cases. It is far easier for most of us to simply take our identity from the culture, and change ourselves over time to fit wel
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