Post by Omen on Jan 5, 2014 17:19:09 GMT -5
“How do you convert a group into a team?
Give them a common foe.
How do you convert a team into a group?
Give them a similar challenge.”
Welcome to the casual world of the Counter-Cultist (A cult is a religious group or other organization with deviant and novel beliefs and practices)… Oops, I meant the study of Culture and Counter-Culture.
We HATE the mainstream!! We embrace being different! We’re not like the rest – they’re nothing more than lemmings, following each other around and trying to fit in. We don’t fit in and we don’t try to!
After all, everyone that is a part of our group feels the same way!! We’re individuals.
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Uh, uhm… yea.
There is often nothing more adoring than watching one who has no reason to be upset with the world, trying so hard to be upset with the world. They try so hard to be unique, until they fit the unique group who calls themselves, ‘Unique’.
Uh, uhm… yea.
I love Counter-Cultists because there happens to be one in all of us. You see, the first step to understanding Counter-Culture is to discuss Culture and the ‘Mainstream’.
While there are a ton of definitions of Culture, I have chosen to break it down to its basics… Culture is based on Survival, Evolution, and Change; Survival being the actions taken by one to continue living, while Evolution and Change are merely separated by the aspects of Need and Want.
Evolution is the next step above Survival because it is involves the advancements needed in order to continue surviving. Evolution is a path that can only lead forward, because stagnation only leads to death.
Change is our home-grown, nice little icing on the cake, because it is based on WANT, or shall I say, thought, awareness… and what’s ‘cool’. Change tends to be temporary and has the ability to go back and forward along the cultural scale of things.
Culture at its foundation is primal and often without question. Survival becomes the explanation for the first beings coined as ‘man’, migrating.
Evolution is the description of the skin transformations made by these poor creatures in order to continue living in their new environments, along with their advancements in tools and weapons.
Change is the sad story told about these very same individuals who chose to use their new tools and weapons to slaughter one another because of the differences between these new skin hues.
But then again, Change is not always bad.
While the three foundation components of Culture are Survival, Evolution, and Change, It is the aspect of Change that has the biggest impact on the elements that make up the next level of Culture: Behavior, Language, Beliefs, and Identity.
From these, the Mainstream and Counter-Culture are born.
But we’ll save these for another time, my little Counter-Cultists…
Give them a common foe.
How do you convert a team into a group?
Give them a similar challenge.”
Welcome to the casual world of the Counter-Cultist (A cult is a religious group or other organization with deviant and novel beliefs and practices)… Oops, I meant the study of Culture and Counter-Culture.
We HATE the mainstream!! We embrace being different! We’re not like the rest – they’re nothing more than lemmings, following each other around and trying to fit in. We don’t fit in and we don’t try to!
After all, everyone that is a part of our group feels the same way!! We’re individuals.
…
…
Uh, uhm… yea.
There is often nothing more adoring than watching one who has no reason to be upset with the world, trying so hard to be upset with the world. They try so hard to be unique, until they fit the unique group who calls themselves, ‘Unique’.
Uh, uhm… yea.
I love Counter-Cultists because there happens to be one in all of us. You see, the first step to understanding Counter-Culture is to discuss Culture and the ‘Mainstream’.
While there are a ton of definitions of Culture, I have chosen to break it down to its basics… Culture is based on Survival, Evolution, and Change; Survival being the actions taken by one to continue living, while Evolution and Change are merely separated by the aspects of Need and Want.
Evolution is the next step above Survival because it is involves the advancements needed in order to continue surviving. Evolution is a path that can only lead forward, because stagnation only leads to death.
Change is our home-grown, nice little icing on the cake, because it is based on WANT, or shall I say, thought, awareness… and what’s ‘cool’. Change tends to be temporary and has the ability to go back and forward along the cultural scale of things.
Culture at its foundation is primal and often without question. Survival becomes the explanation for the first beings coined as ‘man’, migrating.
Evolution is the description of the skin transformations made by these poor creatures in order to continue living in their new environments, along with their advancements in tools and weapons.
Change is the sad story told about these very same individuals who chose to use their new tools and weapons to slaughter one another because of the differences between these new skin hues.
But then again, Change is not always bad.
While the three foundation components of Culture are Survival, Evolution, and Change, It is the aspect of Change that has the biggest impact on the elements that make up the next level of Culture: Behavior, Language, Beliefs, and Identity.
From these, the Mainstream and Counter-Culture are born.
But we’ll save these for another time, my little Counter-Cultists…
