Culture in Real Time
As I read it, culture is comprised of four things in increasing levels of significance: symbols, heroes, rituals and values. By that quite academic frame, it seems that as we parse out our differences in our current multi-cultural war in America, it is a fixation on the symbols that trip us up.
We must strive to make what happens to us good for us. That’s how we master disappointment. That’s how we evolve and persevere.