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    meaning, ayon kay Rick Potts (Anthropologist, Paleontologist, Paleo-ecologist):


Culture is the means by which individual differences among humans interact symbologically (through symbolic meaning)
wthin a social group in specific environmental circumstances usually mediated under various forms of institutions
like family / kinship, politics, economics, morals, law and art, to better equip humans to express themselves and
to adapt and act as part of a whole against different challenges and stresses in their changing environment,
giving humans the collective capacity to imagine and invent, to revise and reject, to solidify and diversify
the social approaches of fellow humans and transmit these approaches to succeeding generations and other social group.


Culture began to emerge when complex social variation was first manifested, when early humans began to
perpetuate and alter their behaviors by using rich symbolic codes, and when mental operations encouraging novelty and
social mechanisms encouraging diversity first came into existence.  Culture has emerged when the uniformity and
predictability of rigid social tradition coupled with instinctive impulses has given way to a fluid rhythm and
natural patchwork of new patterns of behavior proliferated by different social groups in response to increasingly
diverse habitats and social conditions in increasingly unpredictable waves of change and widening range of human adaptation.


Ang "kultura" o "kalinangan" ay ang kabuoan ng pamamaraan ng tao upang pagugnayin ang kaniya-kaniyang pagkakaiba tungo sa pakikisalamuha sa isang lupong panlipunan sa pamamagitan ng mga “symbolic code” ( o pagbibigay kahulugan sa mga material na bagay at gawain ng tao) upang maipahayag ang sarili at maging kasapi ng kanyang kapwa tao sa pagtugon sa mga pagsubok sa kanilang pabago-bagong kalagayan, at ang mga pamamaraan na ito ay naipapasa sa mga susunod na salinlahi ng tao at sa iba pang grupo ng tao.

WE ARE TAKING OUR HUMANITY BACK: a New Synthesis


Critique of the Revolution as the exclusive enclave of the working-class alone:

What about the orphans, widows, students, out of school youth, inventors, scientists and radical entrepreneurs who sympathise with our Struggle?
It cannot be denied that the working-class / proletariat has a special role, but, since we are all humans undergoing the same progressive human degradation, we all have a role to play.
Certainly, the rest of humanity will not subserviently surrender to the proletariat-turned-autocrat.
It is impossible for one person, or one party, to ascertain and dictate the direction that ALL people should take.
One cannot BE all and the END all of entire society.  A dictator will always disrupt the natural social order to divert resources unto himself for his own purposes and seek to glorify himself to the detriment of all sectors of society.  A dictator shall always delude himself first and, through authoritarian rule, delude the rest of society.
Dictatorship is the enemy of an Open Society for it is the beginning of a Closed Society.


the supposed "evils" of Capitalism, Militarism, and Imperialism is a necessary precondition and prelude to human progress

through our Struggle with artificial means of control to bring about social change for further development of natural human potential, a sort of via negativa


the "evils" of Capitalism, Militarism, and Imperialism bring about excesses that heighten our sense of individuality and
provide us (individuals and tightly-knit social groups) with a three-fold quest: to regain or reconstruct our freedom;
reforge our own identity; and envision a better society — in fact, tools originally intended to perpetuate the "evils"
of a Closed Society (by trying to predict and control our behavior) have been transformed by proponents of an Open Society and increasingly used for our common good and for the benefit of our Struggle

DARPA - Internet
GPS - civilian use
cotton gin - EDVAC / UNIVAC / business machines / war machines - to connecting people, touching lives and creating a virtual society with tremendous potential to become a level playing field for everyone online


the "evils" of Capitalism, Militarism, and Imperialism are NOT overthrown when the governments responsible for them are disestablished
in fact, the same "evils" continue to prevail (or more so) in an artificial workers' state, or what we call degenerate / deformed
communist / socialist state, the tables are merely turned over when an iron hand is forced upon the proletariat to
rule out from power their former masters and in filling into their shoes the proletariat is tempted to fit in to the same mold and
commit the same "evils" done by their former masters, and this is the fate of most modern communist / socialist states that have
failed, they failed because they were out of touch with the aspirations of common men and women as they continued to
glorify a revolution that has given even more power to a ruling class and less power to the people.  But the curious fact is,
this Decadence, this falling out is NOT unique to the Left or to the Red Flags since unflung..


traditional financial systems are failing, traditional government is becoming superfluous, and traditional religion is increasingly ignored
the individual is prevailing, the quest for direct participation, authentic experience and real relationships has given urgency to our Struggle,
but since the collapse of every established institution, Left and Right, is an ongoing trend, the individual gains we have won and
have been winning since the 1990's are not consolidated by the many individuals comprising the people of today.
There is no critical mass or self-conscious effort to form an Open Society.  The same blind masses that raised the Red Banner
at the beginning of the last century have gloriously razed it to the ground before the end of the same century.  Why?
Because it is easier to blame your government for your society's "evils" than to go correct them for yourselves and for your own posterity.
And it is always easier to simply hate your existing condition than to set out a blueprint of your desired condition.
So we swing like a pendulum from the Right, to the Left, then Right again, not knowing where we really want to go.  Anywhere but here.


sad to say for the common people, the "evils" of previous governments continue to hound any government we seek to replace it with
this is because the "evils" of Capitalism, Militarism, and Imperialism are merely in their current incarnation of an ongoing cycle
of increased control over fellow humans and increased popular resistance towards a greater expression of our natural freedom
no matter what body of government it takes, these "evils" are self-perpetuating chimeras that will metamorphose into other
forms of control just to continue their hold on human fate on earth..


imagine how


Scientific Method has necessarily arisen in Western Europe because of a lost


an Open Society was the natural condition of humans and our humanoid ancestors for millions of years until the idea and implementation of dominating several entire social groups and directing precious resources for the benefit of one man or a few select cadres created a prototype of a Closed Society
in the face of this destroyed natural order, we who have been caught up in this state of "civilization" cannot go back to our previous pristine state, it is a paradise lost
we can only create new forms of such artificiality as to imitate natural forms - naturalisms or bio-mimicry on top of our inauthentic and synthetic societies and virtual relations until humanity has recovered from its own worst crime against itself by developing new and more complex natural patterns, and by cultivating what natural patterns of human ingenuity remains underneath those crushing forms we created
fake it until you make it!


Critique of the Revolution as the exclusive enclave of the working-class alone
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