Posts Tagged ‘culture’

Culture is Your Operating System

Terence McKenna, well-known for his refrain of “culture is not your friend”, explains how thoughts and beliefs occur within a framework, an “operating system” — and if you want to be able to think new thoughts and have different beliefs, you need to change your operating system.


The Trouble with Traffic Laws

CriticalMass.org posted a blurb about a study in the UK showing how women cyclists are more likely to get run down than men cyclists, apparently because they are far more likely to stop at red lights and stop signs and follow car traffic laws. A commenter named Elijah responded by asserting that he felt safer [...]