CULTURAL VALUES, the ideas, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors that occur often in a group of people, nowadays are studied under the increasingly popular term "memes", a word which has been around awhile, but is only now coming into its own.
With whole nations, throughout the course of world history, sining into attitudinal black holes such as worshipping at the alter of communism, an economic system, or putting people to death for not conforming to this religion or that, memes, or ideas, ideals, are obviously important, in that they influence and control our behavior individually and in large groups, thus determining the very quality of our lives.
Today's memes, in the world of the approaching December 21, 2012 doomsday date, and the nature of today's world attest to the importance of our cultural values upon our contemporaty world. We are stripped searched at all airports nowadays because of a cultural value system, and its impact on the behavior of individuals.
It didn't take most people long to move on from the emotional turmoil of the changing of the millenia, nor should the december 21 2012 crowd have much difficulty moving on before long.
wouldn't it be nice, though, if the relgisious fanaticism would fade away...in africa, evidently, tribes fight against tribe merely because they are different tribes. The nationalistic attidutinal curse crippled france and gernamn for centuries, until they finally decided to so integrate their economies that further conflict would be self destructive for all.
everytime some over zealous patriot idiot screams "this is the greatest country in the world", you might whisper, "at least, we hope it is trying to be"...
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