have you listened to any Terrance McKenna on the subject of culture? Classic stuff... tho probably not very popular with ingroup here 
but I think the core insight holds: culture is totalizing, even multiculture. if you don't want to be eaten by it, it's not your friend.
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I disagree with this though. consider the individual as a microcosm. each relationship threatens to eat you.
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does this imply that you should avoid relationships?
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I think reach relationship DOES threaten to eat you and that the amount of misery experienced by bad relationships is evidence of this.
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it doesn't imply you should avoid relationships. it implies that you should put in work to have good relationships and terminate bad ones
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and the same is true of culture. work in your subculture to make it good. terminate your relationship with bad culture.
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that I agree with, but it's a very different from the "culture is not your friend" statement and the sermon that goes along with it
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his culture is not your friend rant is more of a "ra ra!" type thing instead of something to think deeply about IMHO
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that's why I find it offputting. it's thought terminating, and the audience reaction is creepy.
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