What is sold as culture today is just that: a product; a derivative of humanity, sold by the world’s most successful companies as a hollow substitute, but one that sells like hotcakes.
What is sold as culture today is just that: a product; a derivative of humanity, sold by the world’s most successful companies as a hollow substitute, but one that sells like hotcakes.
Culture is around all the time, we’ve just denied ourselves the right to use it because we started believing people could own ideas and let copyright/IP laws act as a gateholder.
Is dictated make-believe still culture? I don’t think so, but that’s what it boils down to.
Honestly, I can’t understand how you can’t see that, because it’s been the case all over the world for a very long time. Take a look at the so-called social media applications. Do you seriously believe that what people see there has anything to do with who they really are? With their every day lives? What they understand as culture based on their experience there?
Yes, of course, the real world still exists, but do you really think it’s independent of what people see online?
What do you think culture is?
To me culture is the shared stories, history, values and ideals of a group. So yes those make belief stories reflect people’s daily lives because they touch on themes that resonate with them.
I see no distinction between online or offline in terms of “real”, it’s the human that matters not the medium their idea is spread in.
That’s true, but culture has also been a business for a long time. What you see and hear is the result of this, because there are media that reinforce your awareness of your senses. If you think that you would remain unaffected by this, you don’t understand my point.