CULTURAL MANUFACTURE
Exactly what the words mean: the conscious construction of cultures.
David Riesmann has noted a difficulty among people “to imagine nonexistent things: to imagine, for instance, nonexistent animals; they can only put parts together which are already available. . .a centaur or a unicorn. . .now that we can draw on the world storehouse of cultures through our knowledge of anthropology & history we can. . .fit pieces of culture together, but we find it hard to invent new ones.”
Well, yes, it would be definition be impossible for anyone to create anything new — for to do so would require the invention of totally new parts for the totally new whole — except for a small number of things created at some point in the past, such as the wheel, most creation whether literary or technological or what have you is by a synthesis of multitudinous unoriginal parts in new configurations with perhaps one new element added in somewhere.
The same is true with cultures not consciously created, i.e. traditional cultures created by accretion about some central range of ideas & habits or, in reverse, traditional cultures generated & caused to grow much as ina fermentation broth from some central range of ideas & habits; to quote Lincoln: “Public opinion, on any subject, always has a ‘central idea’ from which all its minor ideas radiate” perhaps public existence does as well.
To understand Culture in an empirical manner then would be achieved by creation of such a central range of ideas & habits in different environments & monitoring the growth towards, or away from, a Culture by these ideas.
In a simplistic way one might define this as the methodology of Illuminati Ganga but that is complicated by I.G. being enveloped in their experiment, by its being too self-referential to easily separate and analyze.
We hold a certain central range of ideas & habits regarding cultural generation & its desirability around which & from which our culture grows even as we fulfill our central purpose and mentally instituted requirements to action by developing multitudinous and endlessly combinable “central ranges of ideas & habits” around which & from which other cultures may develop.
This article was taken from the notebooks of IG Agent 81
