#westernculture — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #westernculture, aggregated by home.social.
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Rebellion Against the Rebels – Hungarian Conservative https://www.byteseu.com/1961881/ #1988 #1989 #BerlinWall #CommunistYouthLeague #FideszGovernment #FideszKDNP #HungarianElections2026 #Hungary #KISZ #Politics #rebellion #RegimeChange #TiszaParty #WesternCulture #WesternEurope
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Does self-control equal happiness and success? A new study flips the idea on its head.
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Want to understand the history of European culture? Start with the Minoans, not the Ancient Greeks.
From art to architecture, this pioneering bronze age civilisation had a huge influence on other western cultures.
#Europe #Minoans #Culture #BronzeAge #Civilisation #Minoan #History #Greece #Crete #Archaeology #Art #Architecture #WesternCulture
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Top ten posts in June 2025
https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/07/01/top-ten-posts-in-june-2025/
#angelDiaries #article #bestPosts #bestTen #blood #book #BrianPCopenhaver #CindyBarukhMilstein #cinema #cryptic #empodiment #erikDavis #esotericSecrets #esotericism #GarryJShaw #GeorgiaVanRaalte #GrahamStJohn #initiation #JeanSeznac #JohnCoulthart #JohnMalkovich #Journal #June2025 #MaggieMayhem #magic #manuscripts #menstruationMagic #Monad #movie #mysterious #paganGods #PatrickLeppetit #poster #resistance #ritual #RobertSchwentke #RolloAhmed #sacred #secretSocieties #Seneca #summary #summaryOfTheMonth #Surrealism #survival #TerenceMcKenna #topPosts #topTen #Voynich #westernCulture #zine
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AI suggestions make writing more generic, Western
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/04/ai-suggestions-make-writing-more-generic-western
#HackerNews #AIwriting #GenericContent #WesternCulture #AIethics #WritingTrends
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#Federal #Report #Outlines #Abuses at #Native #BoardingSchools, #Calls for #Remedies.
#NativeAmerican #children were taken from #homes, #parents, and #communities to #boardingschools to “#assimilate them into #WesternCulture,” and "#Religion," a strategy of #cultural #genocide.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #IndigenousPeople #History #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #EmptyThePews
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#culture #empire #affect #education #ClimateChange #history #psychology #indigenous #WesternCulture #industrialization #Discipline #Punish
what do y'all think?:
"from the beginning of the industrial age, we have taken the whole of humanity on a big journey away from 'the natural world'... in pursuit of progress. ...in pursuit of our rational superiority to the world, and animals, and things like that.
we're beginning to review that now, and we're beginning to see the costs of that.
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the whole of humanity has been busy putting up a sort of false self [of rationality] over what i call "the inner indigenous" - that "natural" self that's got a lot of spontanaeity, emotions. it's raw and sexual and things like that... we've been coating that with rationality and with progress.
the british system of boarding school is a perfect element at developing that kind of estranged self, which functions terribly well in other institutions - like in politics, in the army, in church, in business, in building empire. and of course that was the original motivation [behind developing the schools] - to develop administrators of the british empire.
but take it out of that environment and into the one where the natural self is more apparent - in the family - and it functions very badly, in general. so the breakdown of that self is liable to be in the family.
and [recovering] is not just an internal sort of psycho-spiritual adventure, it also means you have to come home to relationship, to being a social being, to being a family being, to being a body... and in that journey, that's where the true wisdom is to be had. you can take your refined mental appartus and use that to help you on that journey...and that's great." - nick duffell
from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPHxGYAqbuU
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i think this is a very interesting line of reasoning!
i disagree with his contention that "the whole of humanity" is doing this, but that's another thing you'll find in mainstream western culture - a universalizing drive that takes characteristics of western culture & society, and treats them as if they apply to all people everywhere. he's a brit, i forgive him this error.
i don't know about "inner indigenous"...but i get what he's saying about a more "animal" self that gets turned into a "civilization-brain" self through an institutional education process.
the civilization-brain self does well in institutions (and so you see it rise to the top of things like international negotiations on climate change), but it has little connection to the "living" or "animal" self - which is what the fight over climate change is all about! like, valuing the actual living world! not some abstract version of it, but the actual land and people and animals!
i like his analysis because it ties together separation from self, separation from nature, separation from other people (emotionally), and empire, boarding schools, institutions of all kinds, industrialization (historically), and the global ecological catastrophe we're all a part of.
and i like that he recommends that people (especially gentlemen, who are more likely to have been disciplined out of their "animal" selves, imo) reconnect with other people and go on their own "psycho-spiritual" journey to discover whether that "civilization-brain self" is really all there is to life.
and i agree that if one hasn't reconnected to their own animal self, and hasn't reconnected with actual people and the actual land, it's going to be very hard to get in "good relation" to the planet (and solve the exploitation of nature that is like, at the root of climate change. if people lived in balance with the land (ie, in 'right relation'), we wouldn't have biodiversity loss, we wouldn't have climate change...because you'd be valuing the land and bringing it back to life, instead of exploiting it.
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CW: On Grief
A short burst of words on how, in Western culture, we very often censor ourselves when we learn of or are present at the death of a loved one.
Even at this most vulnerable, painful time, restraint kicks in and a voice tells us not to inflict the most raw version of our distress on others.The visceral grief that is openly displayed and experienced communally in other cultures happens behind tightly closed doors for us, if it happens at all!
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[EN] We are at a crossroads in history and the Western culture is being questioned recently due to its selective approach. There needs to be a redefinition of the value system adopted and to explain what each value means explicitly in order for this culture to avoid the downward path which it has set for itself.
#westernculture
#cultureevolution
#superiority
#selectivity
#valuesystemhttps://www.tiktok.com/@hayan.harb/video/7303603699434130721
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[EN] We are at a crossroads in history and the Western culture is being questioned recently due to its selective approach. There needs to be a redefinition of the value system adopted and to explain what each value means explicitly in order for this culture to avoid the downward path which it has set for itself.
#westernculture
#cultureevolution
#superiority
#selectivity
#valuesystemhttps://www.tiktok.com/@hayan.harb/video/7303603699434130721
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[EN] There is a need to reassess the values that we try to abide by in our society. Some values are proving to be useless when they are accompanied by superiority and selectivity. Societies have a responsibility to redefine the pillars that they build their cultures on and especially the Western Culture.
#valuesystem
#superiority
#westernculturehttps://www.tiktok.com/@hayan.harb/video/7302501805835980064
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[EN] There is a need to reassess the values that we try to abide by in our society. Some values are proving to be useless when they are accompanied by superiority and selectivity. Societies have a responsibility to redefine the pillars that they build their cultures on and especially the Western Culture.
#valuesystem
#superiority
#westernculturehttps://www.tiktok.com/@hayan.harb/video/7302501805835980064
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> I can imagine a culture in which such a discovery would be made without anyone planning to use it for a bomb. This would be a high culture. But making a bomb was an idea all too natural in #WesternCulture in which technological superiority was so integral to subduing other world cultures... I'm not saying #technology is all bad, or even neutral. It needs to be seen as ambivalent in the human context...
https://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0825/082510.html
#vonWeizsacker on #Tech #Technics #TechChoice #TechAndEthics -
An interesting thing #WesternCulture has, that might be more insidious than it might seem at first glance, is how we put our individuality above all else.
There's too many examples of this to count, but it even gets into progressive fiction like Star Trek, with the borg.
What is the problem with this, you might ask? Well, it teaches us from the moment we are born that our individuality is above all else, even the group.
It's not surprising that we now have anti-maskers and stuff like that.
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there’s something quite dreadful, but unsurprising, about this story
a complete metaphor for … oh, I’ll say #ConstiutionalMonarchy but I really want to say #WesternCulture
