Navigating Mainstream Culture, Cultural Blindness, Anti-Culture and Next Culture with Jorge Pedret
Channel: Jorge Pedret
Date: 14/11/2023

There is much more than the naked untrained eye can see. There are invisible forces right in front of you, at all times, that influence your actions and behaviours.

Mainstream Culture, or Anti-Culture, is a culture dedicated to the consumption of life on Earth without any regards for giving back. This is a parasitical relation that eventually leads to the dead of the parasite and the host.

My name is Jorge Pedret. I'm documenting my journey in video format as I explore, research, and immerse myself in different experiments, lineages, cultures and communities of practice. 

I share with you with the intention to capture your attention and to direct your attention to places that increase your awareness about the world where we live.

I speak to you in this video from a Gameworld called Possibility Management, which is an empirical, non-linear, non-hierarchical community of practice that emerges from radical responsibility. (http://possibilitymanagement.com/)

In this video, I navigate the culture that I was born into, Mainstream Culture, Capitalist Patriarchal Culture, and the forces that keep it alive. 

I also share where to start in the process of escaping your culture of birth and taking a stand for the culture where you want to live.

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I was born in Venezuela, a country rich with culture, made up of the mix of Europeans, Africans and Indigenous people. 

By the time I was born, in 1985, there was already an imminent degradation of the environment and of the culture.

Technology was taking over. The people that before was dedicated to growing food and farming, were forced by the economical situation to move to the city to work on the oil industry. 

The wild origins of Venezuela's culture, was getting devoured in front of our eyes by the insatiable appetite of a massive Anti-Culture beast.

Why would I want to escape my culture of birth so rich with traditions, flavours and depth?

My culture of birth wasn't Venezuela's "original" thriving rich culture, it was a decaying culture, only the shell of it was remaining, the insides had been eaten up. 

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Why would Men want to escape Patriarchy?

After all, men are the ones in power, the ones benefited from the parasitical relation between Man and Woman.

Yes, in Patriarchy men are parasitical to women. Men use women as hosts for laying their energy sucking worms. 

Patriarchal women benefit from this by blaming men for sucking their energy, giving men their energetic center, avoiding responsibility. 

This is one of the basic relations between man and woman in the Patriarchal cultural context.

Then a man wakes up to see what he is creating in the world, to see his part is the exploitation, enslavement and extermination of life on Earth, to see his unconscious commitment to surviving.

How do you create a space where you take a stand for the culture that you want to see in this world?

What are you taking a stand for?