Culture Index

“Cherubs Amused by Fart Bubbles” by Arthur Berzinsh. The resplendent beauty of culture, in a painting.

“The arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.” [Oxford English Dictionary Online]
“The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; also : the characteristic features of everyday existence (such as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time.” [Merriam-Webster Online]
“The way of life of a particular people, esp. as shown in their ordinary behavior and habits, their attitudes toward each other, and their moral andreligious beliefs.” [Cambridge Dictionary Online]

“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.” – Alan Watts
“It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved on this earth, where he first appeared as a weakly member of the animal kingdom, and on which each individual of his species must ever again appear as a helpless infant… is a direct fulfillment of all, or of most, of the dearest wishes in his fairy-tales. All these possessions he has acquired through culture.” – Sigmund Freud
“There are only two countries: Dick and Not-a-Dick.” – Doug Stanhope