Western Culture is the Anti-Culture. Korea demonstrates the hazards of adopting Western Culture.

 Let's see if I can explain this in simple terms...

Western Culture, mainly the practice of materialism and religiously chasing fiat money incessantly is the means and method that distract people from understanding the ramifications of what they are participating in. The destruction of themselves and the future of humanity as free, thinking, compassionate and enlightened people.

Culture in the form of rituals and traditions has been a way of gently programming the individual's subconscious within a community with long term beneficial behaviors. Those ideals have been systematically removed and replaced with "modern" psychologically design models of advertising and programming that have conditioned the minds of the masses into dumbed-down zombies that are controlled by emotions and addictions.

This isn't my suggestion, although I agree with it. This is the experience related from people living in a former third world country that has been transformed into a modern "Western Economy," Korea. After 50+ years of "modernization" and the adoption of Western culture, this former country of centuries of strong family values and virtue is sinking into a "handicapped" society of loneliness, depression, suicide, and petty behavior. The 78 minute video below is a very nice synopsis.

Asians in general have been examples of obedient cultures and now that obedience has been taken advantage of by the Western system of education. Koreans have become even more obsessively obedient to the educational institutions and the roles they prescribe and it is accelerating their downward spiral. The sole reliance on rational thinking leads to an inability to have compassion and empathy, which over time leads to further deterioration of the ability to have quality of life.

The pursuit of materialistic goals and the religious obedience to fiat money focuses individuals on the over-emphasis on the superficial physical elements of life and leaves them lacking. The underdevelopment and even retardation of the cognitive, spiritual and emotional elements of their lives leaves them empty and confused.  Thus, people are even easier to exploit and manipulate.

The good news is... removing yourself from the constant noise of media and society, reading books to rebuild attention spans, bartering and volunteering services to discover real value, developing your own life narratives are some simple actions that can be taken. Embracing third world cultures that still value family and quality of life over materialism is another. Check out the 12 min video below on how culture drives behavior. Adapting and integrating new cultures rather than dismantling them is the most beneficial way ahead.

There's a book that relates to this topic I am unable to get my hands on. If anyone finds it in a pdf form, please let me know. "The Geopolitics of Information: How Western Culture Dominates the World" by Anthony Smith.

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