NEW CIVILIZATION CULTURE
It might be beneficial to look at a new civilization as an emerging
culture. See, a culture is not something that is planned, controlled or
organized. A culture is a continously changing movement. It is what people
do, the experiences they have, and the values, ideas and dreams they have
in common.
A culture has no clearly defined borders. There is no certainty on exactly
who's in it and who isn't and it is not clear exactly when it starts or
ends.
There is no need to fully comprehend or analyze a culture in order to
partake in it. It lives even if nobody quite understands what it is or
where it came from. It might contain many elements in constant motion, but
there is no need to be confused about them. A culture is appreciated by
experiencing it, not by explaining it.
A culture emerges when the time is right. It can not be forced upon anybody
by a central command. If and when it emerges, it takes on a life of its
own, existing beyond anybody who might participate in it.
There aren't particulary right or wrong ways of carrying forward a culture.
Rather the culture is the sum of everything that its participants do.
A civilization can appear unfathomably complex if we try to understand
everything that goes on in it, or if we try to predict or control how
exactly it will develop, or if we try to agree on these things. However, if
we regard a new civilization as a culture, we don't have to. We might
simply start participating in it, expressing it and living it.
It might well be more fruitful to tell the stories of what we do, what we
experience, and what we dream in the emerging new civilization, than it
might be to debate what the correct course of action is.
- Flemming
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