Welcome to Emergent-Culture

Making Sense of the Human & Planetary Condition

Demystifying the Past, Unraveling the Present and Anticipating the Future

INDEX:

• Mission Statement
• Emergent Culture the Philosophy
• Why knowledge of Socio-Cultural Dynamics is a matter of Concern for all
• About the founder and author of the Emergent Culture Website

Putting the Pieces Together

The Emergent-Culture website is structured to help provide a clear, coherent and engaging “big picture” assessment of the Human and Planetary Condition.

The Emergent-Culture platform is designed to inform, instigate and motivate solution oriented collaboration on the issues deemed hazardous to culture(s) and the planetary ecology we are part of.

Giving Coherence and Meaning to early 21st Century Cultural Developments

A new culture is yearning to be born. A culture based on values that will carry us forward into a world fraught with increasing challenges. There is however a great obstacle in the way of this new culture.

That obstacle is the inertia of history, habit, tradition and the leadership agencies who presently hold the reigns of power.

The consequences of that inertia are staring us square in the eyes at this very moment as our scientists and concerned citizens sound the alarms of ongoing and impending natural and social catastrophes if we don’t change our ways.

As it is humanity is beset by problems of every sort that will keep growing until our leadership institutions focus our resources (tax money) on the common good.

The Emergent-Culture website exposes the problems by revealing the socio-cultural mechanisms that keeps emerging culture from taking root and thriving. The Emergent-Culture website also offers solutions to overcome the inertia and active suppression of emerging cultural values and practices.

The Emergent-Culture website is divided into six “reading rooms”. Each room has a particular focus.

Each room helps the reader understand key domains of Western culture and the socio-cultural forces driving either socio-cultural stagnation or revitalization. Social stagnation is the province of the prevaling culture and social revitalization is the mark of emerging culture

Aside from my focus on the socio-cultural dynamics of prevailing and emerging cultures and the global crisis, there are two specialties subjects of mine.

One is the section on the Art and Science of Synchronicity and the other pertains to the growing 2012 phenomena. 2012 is meaningful if only because humanity stands at a crossroads of unprecedented magnitude.

If you have questioned your culture and are not satisfied with its answers and solutions then you are a member of the cultural movement this website dedicated to.

Mission Statement

Emergent-Culture.com’s mission is to research, promote and develop humanitarian and ecologically sensitive modes of culture.

Reading Room Descriptions

Learn About What’s Up and Coming, Help Spread the Word and Get Involved

Reading Room 1: Emerging culture deals with the most vital visions and solutions to the notion of cultural renewal and improvement. Our hope of a better world lies with the emerging cultural values of egalitarianism, gender balance, non-violence and ecological balance.

Our Multi-Faceted Global Predicament continues to Worsen

Reading Room 2: The Global Crisis. This section deals with the negative consequences of Western Core Cultural practices. I explore the dynamisms at work and the decisions we will have to confront either by choice or by neglect as the problems begin to hit closer to home. The global crisis affects “third world” countries much more drastically than “first worlders” because “third world” countries are exploited by the latter.

The zones of devastation and dysfunction where our collective and individual effort would do well to reform what is injurious to us and our natural world.

Learn about Your Culture and Help Reform It

Reading Room 3: Know your Culture. Those of us alive today are the inheritors of a cultural process that is over 5000 years old.

You can be sure that what you were taught in school about Western culture is a whitewashed version of history. In this section you will learn about the social-cultural dynamics that create all of the artificial inequities you see in the US and abroad. You will learn about the uncensored version of Western history.

Do Things Happen for a Reason? Yes They Do, but what are those Reasons?

Briefing Room 4: The section on Synchronicity is my attempt to place the concept of synchronicity on a scientific foundation. Carl G. Jung only defined what characterizes a synchronistic event. He conjectured that there might be some larger aspect of reality underpinning synchronistic events.

My work on the Art and Science of Synchronicity will reveal the underpinnings and mechanisms of synchronicity. My understanding of synchronicity allows me to state that every event is a synchronistic event and that what we are accustomed to calling synchronicities are only but the most obvious of synchronicities.

What is 2012 and the End of the Mayan Calendar all About?

Reading Room 5: 2012. I have been studying Maya calendrics and tracking the 2012 phenomena ever since it first came onto the public mind field in 1987.

There is an enormous amount of confusion, sensationalism and misunderstanding surrounding the closure of a Maya time cycle on Dec. 21, 2012 and the nature of the Maya calendrical system itself.

My work on the Art and Science of Synchronicity is based on my understanding of Maya Calendrics. My work dispels all of the erroneous aspects surrounding 2012 and Maya Calendrics while seeking to place Maya calendrics on a scientific footing.

The Most Terrifying Aspects of Our Culture in Need of Greatest Reform

Reading Room 6: Prevailing Culture: Here we find the most perverse and poisonous elements of our society. The root source of our national and global problems stem from the prevailing culture of not only the USA, but of all Western modeled nations.

The culture we have inherited in the Western World emerges from its darkest realms, the prevailing culture of social subjugation and economic domination.

Why Knowledge of Socio-Cultural Dynamics is a Matter of Concern for All

Making sense out of the present and the 5500 year reign of terror known as Western Civilization.

What is culture? Is culture a trap?

How do cultures develop, grow, evolve and die?

How does culture shape us? How do we shape culture?

How did the human world get to be the way it is and does it have to stay this way?

These and other important questions about culture are the focus of The Emergent-Culture News Website.

The culture of focus is the mega-culture of Western Civilization. This is not due to any enthnocentrism of mine, but rather it is the culture I have inherited and find myself in the midst of. I use the terms Western Civilization and Western Culture interchangeably.

Western Civilization is the cultural inheritance of at least 50% of the worlds population. Western Culture by virtue of its legacy and present condition may also be considered as our master and chains.

The Emergent-Culture News Website is dedicated to assisting you in your understanding of the culture you have inherited.

If we wish to create a better future for ourselves and all concerned, then learning the ropes of socio-cultural dynamics is must for any individual or group striving to promote social and ecological justice.

Cultural engineering is not a college course, but the term serves well to define what the political & religious leadership of Western Culture has practiced for thousands of years. At present our culture is manufactured in assembly line fashion on Capitol Hill, Wall Street, Madison Avenue and Hollywood.

Emergent Culture Philosophy

Nature, community, the arts and spirituality was once the fountainhead of all cultural creativity and inspiration.

About the Author and Founder of Emergent-Culture.com

Greetings and Welcome!

My cyber-publishing initiative is the result of a question I asked myself over twenty-five years ago when I was a psychology major at a Northern California University.

The question was….

“How did the human world come to be what it is today?”

In other words, what are the factors that condition cultures into being what they are and in particular Western culture? Then a curious thing happened to me on my way to higher education. I came across two books that would demolish what I had learned thus far about the nature of the culture I had been born into.

The first book was written by a man who 23 years after his death is still considered to be the world’s foremost authority on comparative worldviews as conditioned by religious thought – Joseph Campbell.

Joseph Campbell’s work would overturn the worldview I had inherited and thus compel me to develop my own based upon my understanding and direct experience of the world versus what I had been told about the world.

The other book that would greatly alter my perception of the world is entitled ‘Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television’, written by former advertising executive Jerry Mander.

In his landmark book Mander demonstrates how television is one of the greatest threats to our social freedoms and to our physical, mental and emotional well being. The other all encompassing casualty of television would be culture in general.

Mass culture would become a sales pitch and an unending series of disconnected hyper-stimulating images all designed with the intent to induce mindless consumption of products and system serving ideas.

The fruits of such a culture would be over-consumption and all of the attendant socio-ecological and economic ills glaring us straight in the face at this very moment.

Mander’s research undermined the credibility of BIG Business and BIG Government in one fell swoop.

I came to understand television as an instrument of social control and exploitation by those in power over those unaware of the true nature and purpose of not only television, but of print and radio broadcasting as well.

After reading those two books and in conjunction with my own observations of the society in which I lived… I could not help but think that I had been born at a time when society had become nothing more than a mere resource to be mined and controlled at will by the religious and secular leadership.

I also came to learn that the field of psychology supplies the necessary knowledge needed to better manipulate the unwary citizen and consumer of mass media information.

I did not want to contribute in any way to a cultural system that preys upon and mercilessly exploits its own people or any people for that matter.

So I left institutional learning and entered into a 25 year journey of self-education in world history, the brain-behavioral sciences, the multi-disciplinary field of cultural anthropology and a smattering of sciences with the I hopes that I could make sense of the human and planetary condition.

Emergent-Culture.Com is the result of my time spent researching how the human cultural condition came to be what it is, what keeps it the way it is and what we might need to do in order to bring about the kinds of changes demanded by our present circumstances. It is my firm belief that a solution to a problem comes into focus only when the problem is thoroughly understood.

I consider myself a concerned planetary citizen and an activist for social and ecological justice.

In closing, I want to thank the reader for taking the time to get acquainted with me. My hope is that my personal sharing will enrich your appreciation of my initiatives

Thank you for visiting and please come again.

Rohaan Solare
Demystifying the Past, Unraveling the Present and Anticipating the Future