The Invisible Culture:
The good news is that over the course of my adventures I’ve met a lot of people who have the same basic problem I do. There are a lot of people in the world who just want to do their own thing and get along with each other. Unfortunately, that’s such a revolutionary concept to the world that there is no established culture for people who just want to be themselves. How do you establish a culture for people who all want to be unique? Well, you begin by asking what all these people have in common. To start with, they all belong to the same species, and they all live on the same planet…
In the Western world, groups of people have been forming cultures based on individuality for about 40 years now. Those cultures are gaining momentum, and are gaining social and political power as a result of their rising popularity. However, in spite of their collective value of individuality, they remain disorganized by that same individuality. Opposed to these people are long-standing traditions of well-organized people who have accumulated a lot of followers and a lot of resources over the course of thousands of years. Most of those traditions were originated by groups of people who just wanted to do things their own way and get along with each other. The people of thousands of years ago were not globally conscious, and as their descendants have come into contact with each other, their cultures have come into conflict.
Did all these ancient traditions suddenly stop valuing harmony between people when they met up with strangers from distant lands? Is this new culture of people just a bunch of punks and rebels who want to piss off their parents? Or is this new culture a group of globally conscious people who value harmony as much as the older traditions claim to, and who simply want to rise above the problems of the old cultures?









