Coming round the curve. It feels like culture has been knocked down and is now trying to get back up.
Professor David Rose, author of the book: Why Culture Really Matters, is right on the mark of what I too have perceived, except he has studied it more thoroughly. He confirms what I have also observed.
There are some things he drags his feet on, and superficially it is the use of words like moral and ethical that I would like to know more about—where his thinking goes, and more importantly where he is coming from.
I had trouble with the presentation.
The personality of the host: he was so very excited and self affirming—out of the box with his enthusiasm.
Superficially, I don’t know what I want, but it needs to be stated in an overview of what the character and foundations of culture are. He did address religion as a universality in cultures, but did not address the distortions of beliefs vs their frames of basic values he calls moral.
I would like to go further into the universal fitness and ethical foundation of all and everyone. I would like to know more of what is learned to be understood as moral and more of what ties behavior to rational function, rather than emotional belief.
I would like to know more about the common baseline of truth, perception, individual character and integrity, as well as the neural character and its composition of unbelief.
What I am seeking is a universal, cultural basic. I want to find a basic in the global community of knowing and understanding. This is likely impossible, but it is required of all of us if we are to continue to exist. I would like to know more about the development of self- management and understanding of interactive behavior throughout the first 15 years of human psychic development. What would it take to better align educational processes and development—directing itself towards what a child requires for their own understanding and growth, rather than the infusions of culture’s desired behavior and beliefs.
He spoke also of the split in the different populations’ generational character development and the complexity between one generation’s “No no’s” and the tangential difference in desire and perceptions of a youthful human confronted with an open universe of meaning and expression.
I am glad to have found someone to affirm my sense of what universal collective life requires to enable all of humanity to better exist together. I feel more confirmed in listening and watching him. Thank you David Rose.