Culture is not your friend, it's an impediment to understanding what's going on. That's why to my mind the word cult and the word culture have a direct relationship to each other. Culture is a cult and if you feel revulsion at the thought of somebody offering to the great carrot, just notice that your own culture is an extremely repressive cult that leads to all kinds of humiliation and degradation, and automatic and unquestioned and unthinking behaviour.
I mean the American family is what keeps American psychotherapy alive and well. This is a cauldron for the production of neurosis.
All culture is a kind of congame, the most dangerous candy you can hand out is candy that makes people start questioning the rules of the game.
posted by Kozi Wolf @ 11:16 a.m.
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The word "cult" has a religious conotation which is conjured when I think of it, so...I looked it up in the dictionary which says;
cult/kult/n. 1. ritualistic religious system. 2. devotion to a person or thing (b. popular fashion. 3. [attrib.] denoting a fashionable person or thing(cult film).
Used in the sense of a ritualistic religious system, MeKenna may be making a bit of a stretch here, but then his idea does play out in many respects. The humiliation and degradation is present in films and in our culture's fetish with sex, blood and violence. These ideas are something I will have to think on more.
for sure, everyone has to resonate with their own truth.
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