Culture Is Mechanical

Rating: 9/10 (25 July 2019)

Culture is an ethereal abstract thing you can't quite pin down, and yet it's such a pivotal player in our life. Culture is the context for almost everything you do especially everything we do socially with other people. Chris Mccandless understood that consciousness is purely a solo activity. You can't increase consciousness through culture. Your ability to self-actualize will only come down to your inner work. Consciousness will not grow in a group environment because it produces all the classic mechanical symptoms of a cult. Fundamentally society is trying to take consciousness, and trying to distribute it to the masses through a culture mechanism, and that always makes it mechanical. It suffocates consciousness, and that's the problem.
The most significant cult you got to be afraid of is not those little cults it's the massive cult. The superset of all cults which is almost entirely transparent to you and it feels just like reality. It feels like it couldn't be any other way.