Well I wasn’t talking about the sum of past influences that have shaped what it is, but the ongoing shaping. Of course it’s arguable and hard to measure, but the influence of new technologies, how they are marketed and fit into people’s lives, and of popular culture and media is making huge changes to our culture.
Popular culture and media are propaganda used by states deliberately to modify the culture of their constituents.
New technologies usually occur when a state makes an environment conducive to the creation of them. That doesn’t mean they are always the ones a state wants invented, mind you, some culture is not deliberate, often enough it’s more like blowback or fallout that a state then has to manage, but all of it is the consequence of state action.
Well I wasn’t talking about the sum of past influences that have shaped what it is, but the ongoing shaping. Of course it’s arguable and hard to measure, but the influence of new technologies, how they are marketed and fit into people’s lives, and of popular culture and media is making huge changes to our culture.
Popular culture and media are propaganda used by states deliberately to modify the culture of their constituents.
New technologies usually occur when a state makes an environment conducive to the creation of them. That doesn’t mean they are always the ones a state wants invented, mind you, some culture is not deliberate, often enough it’s more like blowback or fallout that a state then has to manage, but all of it is the consequence of state action.