All culture is a means of concealing everything vital for the continuity of life—sex, death, excretion...
To an extent, this is the most distinguishing feature of humans: we conceal these essential processes of life and decorate the veils, to make them more pleasant for us.
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But if you take the decorations overlaid onto reality by your culture to be all that there is, you will be completely at the mercy of those supplying the stories of what's underneath them.
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Unless you see reality for what it is, and perceive the underlying and substantial directly yourself, you are incredibly easy to fool and control—and this is fundamentally the whole history of all human culture in a nutshell.