Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Lately I have been trying to figure out what this board means to me.

For me culture is the extro-biological womb we are born into, everything that makes us human and inhuman.

Talk a bit about how your concept of culture has changed over the years.

In fields like mine, in particular, we used to focus on "Culture" with a capital "C"—East versus West, for example, or Judeo-Christian versus Islamic or Confucian or Buddhist or Asian or Oriental "civilization." We still do this with our trendy "clash of civilizations" rhetoric. My initial attraction to Japan was very much tied up with Zen aesthetics, and I do appreciate these high cultures. Increasingly, however, I find greater challenge and pertinence in the "small-c" cultures that cut across "capital-C" boundaries—cultures of war and peace, for example, or cultures of authority, hierarchy, patriotism, mass mobilization, victim consciousness, consensus, protest, creativity, kindness, what have you.

http://web.mit.edu/shass/soundings/issu ... e_03s.html

Some web definitions for culture

. http://anthro.palomar.edu/culture/culture_1.htm

http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vcwsu/commons/t ... index.html

how do you say "Fuck off"
with a capital F or lowwer case f?

yes e-dog
I know it hurts
keep the faith brother

Jesus Christ, e_dog,
you're a hard-ass.
(particularly when I forget to vote).

No escape from culture.

I was wondering about Doreen's choice of the word Culture for this board.



Knip was offended when I said bullshit to him too.
What can I say? I am an ignorant low life truck driver.
Sometimes that bs word just slips out. I must learn to be more discrete.

I was just wondering about all these posts here about Bush and Iraq,
I read a post and I make the stupid mistake of thinking the poster has the same opinion as the article he/she is posting.

"I used to stand and wonder, now I only stand.:jitterbug

Salutations Stilltrucking.
Long time, no write.
I think I agree with you. Except that we don't just get born into it. Culture is created by people, which means that you create it. In the present. As times evolve, you make it evolve.

I can't speak for Doreen, but if my memory is right it seems to me that the choice of the title has already been discussed.

To me culture is a lot of things.

For example, it is a custom to say "bless you" after someone says "a-tishoo".
The story behind this dates all the way back to the 17th century and is linked to religious beliefs ("God bless you"), the black plague (with or without capital letters) and current ethics (it's polite to do so). We only find people doing this in European countries ("at your wishes" in France, "Jesus" in Spain, etc) or ex-colonies that are still led by ex-Europeans.

Culture is born from a countrie's history, but also from other cultures, for without any extra-cultural exchanges it eventually stagnates and dies.



As for the title, to me it evokes facts or articles about people all around the world, who don't necessarily eat with a knife and fork or sit around tables, or aren't familiar with Santa Claus. Topics that make you more familiar with the baffling diversity of human thought, how extremely relative the reader' set of beliefs is down to its very core, which can potentially develop acceptance towards people who don't think or live like the reader, even in everyday life.

However most of the topics are about repression from the American government, and links to articles that put a deeper glance in the Occidental press. Maybe because most people on the board are American, maybe because it's harder to have access to information about other countries in America, or maybe because that's what this forum was supposed to be about in the first place.
I also understand how it's important for people here to talk about these subjects, even if it monopolises the board and only represents a tiny aspect of what culture is.

The title doen't seem relevant to me, but then again that's Doreen's choice.
It's fine by me in any case. I got used to it.

I missed the discussion on culture I will see if I can find it.

Yes culture evolves. I should have said that. It evolves faster than biological evolution. Almost over night, in a generation, and it seems to evolve ever faster.

Do you remember your post about re-thinking living in the moment, and destructive indigenous cultures. I been looking for that. I am pretty sure it was one of yours. I liked it a lot.

This board is more about politics than anything else. But that is fine with me. Politics part of culture too. I make the stupid mistake of thinking that just because someone posts a link to an article here that means they agree with it. RE: Zlatko post about Bush being insane.
http://www.studioeight.tv/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=8752

I think bush is insane, I think American culture is insane , but that is just because I am probably nutz.

I wish I could find that link to your post about destructive cultures.

sorry traveller you did not right that piece about rethinking living in the moment. It was lovingspoonful

geezer memory.