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This society was the result of anti-work -- government assistance, disability payments, welfare culture, and progressive anti-capitalist values which make work the enemy.

Do we shape culture or does culture shape us?

Any recommended reading on this question? Maybe the situationists or trasnscendentalists or the Frankfurt school or something? (Haven’t really read any of these.)

I’ve been wondering about this as civil rights activists are arguing that the entire US cultural apparatus be directed to the end of anti-racism. Will this work because the individual is shaped by his culture? Or are racist cultural artifacts just a product of racism across millions of individuals? Or is a feedback loop that needs to be disrupted? How successful have cultural revolutions (e.g., in the USSR, PRC) been in doing away with the dominant ideology?

Anything in general on whether society shapes the individual or vice versa is helpful too, but I know that’s broad.

Sorry for the dumb post I’m just curious if anyone has any insight.