Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our ways of relating to each other become like habits.
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.
What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.
We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another.
Culture means control over nature.
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
In a sense, habits never really disappear. Once formed, they always remain in our neurology.
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.