Tag: culture
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On generational differences.
All too often we will explain away the behaviour of an older generation by attributing it to a generational difference. But to do so is to perceive the individual in question as a passive victim in the face of cultural forces, without any agency to make their own choices and cultivate their own thoughts and…
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On Society and Storytelling.
Everything in the past is a memory – a story woven from elements of objective truth, and subjective experience and interpretation. These stories echo through time for generations – even if not a single word is uttered or written about what unfolded. Stories were created to make sense of the world and helped provide an…