Re: Official Culture in America: A Natural State of Psychopathy?

Peter Brooks wrote:

"It seems strange to claim that it is 'culture' (or, more probably,
'Culture', the personification) that is responsible for this.


"People usually claim to be keen on 'their' 'culture' as an identifying

part of them, rather than as an oppressor. "

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Science is a culture. The Ptolemeic system of astronomy certainly
allowed some degree of prediction and so was useful (liberatory?) to
those who believed in it. But it was cumbersome and costly to calculate
too, and got in the way of further advances in science. In that sense
believing in it was oppressive. Surely the same could be said for
almost any aspect of culture?

Lance

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