Relating to Ancient Culture (eBook)

Introduction:
Culture is survival. Memory is culture. Society is losing all three. Survival is in jeopardy when memory, books, and clouds disappear.
It is never the job of others to remember your memories. Relating to Ancient Culture can only be accomplished through memories. Past thoughts create cultural understanding.
Human culture is changing, but why? Who has a vested interest in the status quo? Who cares about the apathetic subject? Wietgrefe.
Idling through memories, get irked. Become exasperated. Yearn. Laugh. Learn. Question societal infections for better or worse.
Twenty riddles throughout this book reveal a common, yet mysterious, cultural agent of change. Be shocked at what must change to survive.Chapter 1: Cultural Shift
What is culture? What changes it?
Many archeologists, anthropologists, ecologists, ethologists, etiologists, historians, kinesiologists, linguists, physiologists, polyglots, psychologists, sociologists, theologians, and others have studied ancient cultures. Fossils, structures, landscapes, mummies, scripts, and even deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) provide clues, but clues are merely inklings.
How do you know culture if you have not lived it? I will offer an inkling of how this book is Relating to Ancient Culture.
Culture for most people develops around family and always has. Daughters learned from their mothers and grandmothers, and boys until they come of age tagged along behind their fathers and grandfathers. Historically, children followed the career of their parents. For thousands of years, most people benefited from the cultural experiences of their family.
Other than family, what established cultural experience?
MONEY: WANTS VERSUS NEEDS
Human culture developed around food accumulation and establishment of shelter. Until recently, all cultures were primarily rural and survived off of natural resources alone….
Households without children are not sustainable, hence schools are not needed…. The service sector is primarily high-tech gadgetry that nobody needs to survive.
Education may cultivate, but cultivation produces nothing—just the opposite. Cultivation is also designed to destroy. In society, does cultivation provide structured production and weaning, or imply ignorance, incompetence, and self-centeredness? It needs the former and cannot survive on the latter....
Investment in the school system is overhead cost—a cost justified by calling it “education.” Does the public endure those costs to justify a child’s education? Apparently. Or, are other factors involved? Yes….How many parents today give responsibility to their children? What age do parents give responsibility? If it is at college graduation, they are two decades too late….CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
1 Cultural Shift 1
2 Ancient 11
3 Family Learning 17
4 Basic Training 27
5 Preschool 33
6 Spectator 45
7 Teams 57
8 Free Range 77
9 Freebies 99
10 Feed the Chickens 111
11 I’m a State. 129
12 Change or Punt 141
13 Learning Race 153
14 Marbles 177
viii Contents
15 Servants 181
16 Wean or Whine 195
17 After Weaning 211
18 School-age Migration 227
19 Dog Trick 237
20 Radar 245
21 Don’t Never Know 257
22 Sustainable Culture 273
Epilogue 279
What may be—RIP
Bibliography 293
Index 299