Culture's Societal Role
Commenters debate the influence of culture on societal trends like population dynamics, its potential degradation or evolution, and its importance relative to biology, economics, or evolution.
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It's not about population, it's about culture.
This is the current culture, but culture can change.There may come a time when a new way of thinking will spread, causing this trend to reverse.
Do you care to speculate about why the culture changed?
Alas, one can argue that the current events are the result of the culture that spans centuries :(
Kind of sad to equate culture with capitalistic endeavour. There’s a lot more to the world than that.
Just because two people don't agree on something doesn't make it right to penalize someone because they don't have the same opinion or rationale.I'm saying that most of the time culture "degradation" occurs with more people because these people aren't directly in that culture. They might not be part of it because they don't understand it in the same way as everyone else does. As a result a different interpretation can lead to a culture shift. This is what happened in "Eternal September", wher
Culture flows down from the top.
Can you elaborate on this? How do you think culture has changed?
Feeling attached to that kind of judgements is part of culture. Luckily culture changes trough time, this news opens the possibility that in some years this alternative could be as respectful as sustainable.
Yes, that's my point, and the anti-culture trend I can feel on HN, while somewhat justified, because there are culture douche in some places, is missing the bigger picture: culture, classic books, and so on, are the only way to build a better world.