One Feeds Off The Other ... or what?!

[kahljorn]

Yea, well, that's a given. Why would anyone care about being an individual or non-conformist? That's not really what any of it is about(unless you have some kind of ego problems). It's really about affecting yourself to be the person you want to be i suppose, and carrying the values you think you should carry to the extent you want to carry them.
Basically, so that "negative" influences in your brain don't really fuck with you. In a cultural and psychological way, and in the way of life, that is the ultimate goal isn't it?
Culture is, in many ways, designed to breed people's that fit the culture's ideals. Our culture seems to have qualities they like in people. Like obessity, and consumerism. Basically, our culture breeds us to be stupid, fat, lazy and to spend our life working to buy the products we make. Culture is a sort of slavery, when you really look at it, but that's only because it's being used wrong.
Whenever something pops up that doesn't agree with it, it dissipates. once a certain amount of "Culturism" has been introduced, it barely needs to be sustained because people sustain it by themselves, "What's this? A book on quantum mechanics? SATANS WORK".
Culture can be a very good thing, and even as a bad thing it's not all pervasive. There's always little nooks and crannies of goodness. Culturism is a very useful tool, if this were a different world it could be used to teach children to be respectful of eachother and share. Of course, it's hard to teach children to share when adults don't share. Share a toy, share 1,000,000,000,000 dollars.
Psychology is a sort of mapping of the consciousness. It's not really about homosexuality being caused by abusive fathers. Anybody who has a degree in psychology and says shit like that is not only a moron but in desperate need of a shrink themself. Psychology would seem to be made to benifit the individual, but it's really more universal.
Developmentally there are certain "Points" which elicit huge consciousness changes that are acknowledged by psychologists. Culturally, we try to fill those huge holes of conscious changes with our culture, whether it's schooling or parenting. Let's say at these developmental points there were to be some kind of problem, for example; You're having sex for the first time with your girlfriend, and a cop knocks on the window and scares the shit out of you. Blam, you can be rendered impotent. That's an actual true story, and they fixed it by reimprinting that, "Developmental point".
Another example would be children who are born "Among wolves", the entire idea that they begin to accept their parents as wolves is one of those developmental points. Or the entire cliche that the first face a baby bird sees it considers it's mother is another example.
Our culture knows these points of vulnerability, and fills them with their own ideals. Usually dirty, smelly ideals.

the idea that our culture can make us mental eunuchs without even trying is kind of hilarious. they can quite literally render us physically and emotionally incompetent simply by placing the word terrorist into the media.