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Newer more 'fluid' cultures like 'academic' or 'technologist' disrupt and destroy existing cultures because they destabilize coordinating mechanisms. A last name or tone of skin no longer creates a sense of trust and unity.

These older cultures are far from useless however. They may very well be the key to life, descendants from the original sacred flame.

The problem with the king of fluid cultures, protocol-ization, is that it's soulless and cold and hierarchical. It has no boundaries, no sense of "enough". This infinite hunger arises out of lack of stomach, not a big stomach. It creates the culture of "elite".

Within a traditional culture the family unit can stand as the most sacred. Within a culture under the 'elite' tree, family is one of the first things sacrificed for more money.

It holds nothing sacred because it is so deep within its rules and "proper" ways of doing things that it has forgotten reality, the real world. In the VR world, you can always look at the source code. Porn is similarly 'profane' because it strips the sacred bare.

When something is stripped naked and a price placed on it, it just becomes a commodity, the opposite of something sacred.

Cultures, underpinned by their sacred objects are fundamentally held up by the power of faith in the ultimately meaningless. Out of this meaningless mass comes meaningless pride.

Cultures make it possible to be proud of something. Pride is perhaps the ultimate sin, it misses the mark and prescribes meaning to the meaningless. But pride is the only thing that keeps life going. That's why we'll die for our honor.