Western culture—which is now affecting the whole world—never had a tradition of liberating its individuals from the culture itself.
Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism...are (at root) all methods of liberation, of showing that the cultural game is not all that there is.
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But because the world is infested with a culture blind to the illusory nature of culture itself, it is being destroyed on a scale never before seen; and will continue to be destroyed until people wake up from the cultural dream.