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Mark Pagel in ‘Wired for Culture’ Makes a Strong Case for Cultural Determinism
It is the voice inside our head.
The culture to which we belong—whatever it happens to be—fills us with its peculiar inventory. We are shaped by its mandates and its expectations, its anxieties and aspirations, its preferences and aversions. The basic texture of our inner lives is sewn from cultural threads.
And all of this even though we got here, wherever we are, only as a matter of chance.
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Currently reading and will keep as a permanent book in my library.....oh and check out the website....edge.org
