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Know Your Culture
Friday, June 5, 2009 22:52 - 10 Comments
Platos Cave Revisited: The Cave Walls Of Culture
Our Culture, Our Inheritance, Our Burden
The Way In and a Way Out from the Nightmare of Western History
In the “Allegory of the Cave” we get a depiction of the human cultural condition according to the Greek philosopher Plato, who lived approximately 2400 years ago.
The image to your left is the scene he describes to his student and brother Glaucon.
For the purpose of this article I will allow the reader to arrive at his or her own associations with the words and images I provide and the depictions shown in the image. You will see how no change has occurred over the last 2400 years with regards to the human cultural condition.
The Cultural Unconscious
There are built-in cultural blind spots preventing most of us from grasping the almost invisible and hazard-strewn process of enculturation. Continue…
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