Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood.

Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨DandomRude@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

What is sold as culture today is just that: a product; a derivative of humanity, sold by the world’s most successful companies as a hollow substitute, but one that sells like hotcakes.

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PoastRotato@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This is an incredibly myopic view of what’s considered “culture.” If you’re only looking for culture on TV and mass media, then you’re going to find products, because that’s exactly what those things were designed and optimized to sell. But culture definitely still exists, and it’s exactly where we left it: In the interactions between the people around you.

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- DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You don’t seem to understand what I mean at all. I mean people who try to make a living from their creative work. Do you think that’s still possible?
  
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  - JASN_DE@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Of course it is. Has mostly always been that way, will probably be possible for quite some time.
    
    Just not for every artist, also like always.
    
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renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I think you’re looking in the wrong places. Culture is everywhere. The mediums and groups of people that propagate culture shift over time, but humans are inherently creative and will always develop it.

Try looking in places where there is a focus on community, connection, and the art itself—not places that focus on producing “content” for profit.

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- DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  There are many people who make a living from it. Where else do you see them earning a living?
  
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  - renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I’m not sure what you’re asking.
    
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Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Culture is around all the time, we’ve just denied ourselves the right to use it because we started believing people could own ideas and let copyright/IP laws act as a gateholder.

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- DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Is dictated make-believe still culture? I don’t think so, but that’s what it boils down to.
  
  Honestly, I can’t understand how you can’t see that, because it’s been the case all over the world for a very long time. Take a look at the so-called social media applications. Do you seriously believe that what people see there has anything to do with who they really are? With their every day lives? What they understand as culture based on their experience there?
  
  Yes, of course, the real world still exists, but do you really think it’s independent of what people see online?
  
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  - Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    What do you think culture is?
    
    To me culture is the shared stories, history, values and ideals of a group. So yes those make belief stories reflect people’s daily lives because they touch on themes that resonate with them.
    
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RonnyZittledong@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
We will always have art because it is a fundamental human thing to do no matter if we do it for money or just for ourselves. What we lose is the potential output of artists who could make a living making great things all day every day and feed themselves doing it.

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- DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  What makes you so sure, when there’s not even the prospect of making a living from it anymore? Do you think most artists do it as a hobby?
  
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  - RonnyZittledong@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yes. That’s why artists are always taken advantage of so often. They know artists do it because because they love it and can be paid and treated like shit. Just look at the video game industry.
    
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lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The great superorganic, in modern terminology we might say the metaorganic, its above us all. Personality writ large. That which we learn and share, that which helps survive into the future.

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- DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The question is what the future will look like when culture is created by machines. This is already very evident today with all the social media bots and the logic that directs the attention of the remaining human users. The result is already quite dystopian, don’t you think?
  
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  - lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    In Cultural Relativism the truth is relative. It’s not about moralizing right and wrong. That’s politics. The problem with current reality is it’s not sustainable. The dystopia is the failure, the contraction. We may not survive.
    
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