Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When your culture comes from watching TV every day, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. None of that happened where I was. You're almost taught to realize it's not for you.
Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours reading a book and then have only a foggy notion of what it was about.
It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.
We're a whole culture of people who have a really hard time seeing beyond themselves.
In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.
To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.
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