Where do evolution and culture meet? Can we take processes that are automatic, and consciously reorganize our system of knowing so that we can see more clearly, act more meaningfully?
Culture is like genes, the codes we inherit that shape our relationship to reality, and reality is the mirror against which the code would be refined. But unlike our DNA, how we see is not typically adaptive. Unconsciously we gate and manage the information we encounter to conform to our present reality, which is shaped and conditioned long before we are capable of understanding that conditioning.
Can culture evolve from an arbitrary closed assortment of truths, toward a process, an open system directed to ever-increasing well-being? Can culture evolve to see how it hides, has hidden, the feedback our unconscious truths have been receiving from reality?
Veils of Reality: How being blind to how we see makes our problems cyclical 