Culture

Is simply defined as what you see. And what you see is determined by the kind of lenses you wear. Wear a sunshade and the world looks all cool and dreamy. Try iron glasses and you’re in for the best lesson on conductors and their effects on vital organs. Now substitute your iron glasses for a microscope. Congrats, you just got hit by a car at the next intersection. Your microscope ensured you saw microscopic figures in a macroscopic world. That’s not too bad a feat except for the consideration that you don’t need to dodge germs and bacteria while crossing busy express ways. All you need is have glasses good enough to see large cars and the larger trucks that follow them and have the little sense to step to the right when a car or truck is coming towards the right (for real).
So, what kind of lenses have you got on? What colors your view of the world? Look in the mirror. What do you see? Wrinkles, tissues, lines, purpose? What’s the first thing you see when you wake up in the morning? What do you see when you look out the window? Hazy, foggy, sunshine or moonshine?
Culture is all about spectacles and glasses (again, for real). What you see and interpret in life is dependent on the color of the lenses you wear. Still think I am speaking in parables? Well that goes to show you aren’t wearing my spectacles. Or glasses. Your brain works with the blueprint you’ve fed it. That blueprint is the Operating System. It will determine how your brain will interpret the pictures it sees and even what pictures it can or cannot see. Your OS is the kind of spectacle you’ve got on. Congrats!
What do you see? What color is your sunrise? Gloomy or promising? More importantly, what colors are the hours after sunrise? What color is your sunset? Will you fade without music, sound and light into the void around the bend? Or will you go out like me, all glittering red into the partying arms of the pretty, twinkling stars?