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Spearthrower wrote:

jamest wrote:What I find heart-breaking is that not a single individual here has (yet) addressed the deeply-profound and thought-provoking OP with any semblance of sincerity.

I studied Anthropology undergraduate and was obliged to do a Social Anthropology unit each year. For the 3rd year, the unit was incredibly tough; clashing all the ideas by various sociologists, ethnographers, and anthropologists about what culture is, the meaning of culture, of how it pervades even the grammar of our thoughts.

Your OP is not deep or thought-provoking, jamest. Its a bunch of assertions which you have not only not evidenced, you've actually evidenced the exact opposite.

Seems like nothing has changed. Every thought you have is still the greatest thought that's ever been had, even when the thought expressed is as deep as a puddle. Your OP is functionally equivalent to someone challenging an evolutionary biologist that evolution can't be true because if we evolved from monkeys, how can there still be monkeys? It displays no comprehension of culture at all, and the only reason the thread will continue is because you refuse to believe that anything you produce isn't intrinsically worthy while somehow maintaining that everyone else is just running unthinkingly along the ruts only you have escaped.

It's bad enough to engage in public masturbation, but obliging others to be your effect your self-gratification is where it all goes terribly wrong.