Culture

Culture  (Society)
Interests	Politics
A shared set of values and norms.

Culture describes the behaviour and attributes of human society.

Death denial

In his classic book Denial of Death Ernest Becker defines culture as a form of death denial, that is, a shared means to handle the fear of death by collective creation of values and norms that transcend the individual lives of the subscribers to a culture.

“Politics is downstream from culture.”
Andrew Breitbart

 

Examples

Page name	Description
Cancel culture	A part of Censorship
Culture of privilege
Culture war	A social conflict and struggle between groups for dominance of their values, beliefs, and practices.
Internet culture	An ever-increasingly important topic; the culture of the internet and technology.
Music	A form of culture made by musicians.
Society	A group of individuals with common interest and culture.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Escape From Evil	“As soon as you have symbols you have artificial self-transcendence via culture. Everything cultural is fabricated and given meaning by the mind, a meaning that was not given by physical nature. Culture is in this sense "supernatural,"' and all systematizations of culture have in the end the same goal : to raise men above nature, to assure them that in some ways their lives count in the universe more than merely physical things count.”	Ernest Becker	1976
Escape From Evil	“History, then, can be understood as the succession of ideologies that console for all cultural forms are in essence sacred because they seek the perpetuation and redemption of the death. Or, more momentously, individual life.”	Ernest Becker	1976
Totalitarianism	“The first thing every totalitarian regime does, along with confiscation and mutilation of reality, is confiscation of history and confiscation of culture. I think they all happen almost simultaneously."”	Azar Nafisi

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