Enculturation, or acculturation not sure which but we are born into an extro-biological womb of culture. It shapes us from the moment we open our eyes on this world.
I think about our space ship earth shrouded by a cocoon and cacophony of electro-magnetic radio waves and tv signals, language voices in the ether space, nazz driving around in his old truck searching for a place still untouched by the grid.
Sorry I am rambling. So many dots unconnected here.
I think I mean we got all this stuff coming at us day and night
hard to rise above it
not sure if I can
"I knew I had to rise above it all or drown in my own shit." —Funkadelic
SPECIES ETHIC
Our animal nature, our biological nature is to live in relation to other people. The natural enviornment of humans is primaily culture, not the "natural world," narrowly defined as other species, climate, etc. The sudden and startling growth of The human brain around one million years ago was not in response to saber-tooth tigers, retreating glaciers, nor the intellectual challenge of getting nutmeat out of is shell, but in response to the emergence of culture itself. The brain mechanisms of self-defense, of predation, of territoriality, of sexual and family group affiliation, and of defending offspring have not been supplanted by culture, but raher speak through it in ways that we poorly understand. Culture is not illusory, movie-theater projection of bodily "drives' or "instincts." nor is the body a metaphor; wholly constructed by culture. Culture is as biologically real for humans as the body. Unless in a coma, we are always both culture bearers and bodies at ever moment.
Achilles In Vietnam
