“competition is the only religion. status is the only product.”

- F. A. Kaperson

when people say, “oh, America has no culture”, it’s like, fam, we built the OS that all other cultures will eventually run on.

now, having said that, there’s not a lot of cultural depth anymore. I’ll give you that, for sure.

when I say there’s no more “cultural depth”, what I mean is typically things exemplified via ritual and ceremony etc.

a Holiday Spirit, perhaps.

maybe a dash of joie de vivre.

but that doesn’t seem to happen anymore. there is a lack of depth. people seemingly stop developing culture after they find a sense of style and syntax. that is to say, after they’ve developed a unique way of communicating verbally and with their external expression of Self, typically via clothes, garb, fashion, yadda yadda, they don’t really dig much further. they’ve created an identity and a means of describing it to others. what more is there to do?

that’s the ol’ tradeoff though, innit. you can have more depth at the expense of width, or more width at the expense of depth, but you’re always going to have to pick a balance. that balance can of course fit your preferences at any moment, but you must choose. that’s the important part. the difficult part. you must choose.

interesting how we have cultural width at the expense of cultural depth; swapping geographical uniqueness for a tap into global economic opportunity. hmm. curious. you can also only ever know the position in space or the velocity of an object, but not both. hmm. curious. you can either do something fast or you can do it good. hmm. curios.

hmm. curious.

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curious.

curious.

curious.

if you want some related thoughts on this, you can find a thread here.