Thank you for this elegant metaphor for culture. You have synthesized our common experiences and created a new way to visualize something more meaningful. I will be looking for archipelagos that don’t celebrate football or Christmas.
Awesome! I’ve often brought up the analogy of a federalized system. But I love your picture of archipelagos and now you’ve created a manifesto-essay about Substack and how it should view itself in the wider bustle of the inter webs.
Thank you for this elegant metaphor for culture. You have synthesized our common experiences and created a new way to visualize something more meaningful. I will be looking for archipelagos that don’t celebrate football or Christmas.
It's kinda like: where do you want to spend your vacation time, in air-polluted Athens or sailing around the islands.
A wonderful and useful perspective. Thank you.
Awesome! I’ve often brought up the analogy of a federalized system. But I love your picture of archipelagos and now you’ve created a manifesto-essay about Substack and how it should view itself in the wider bustle of the inter webs.
Culture flows from 'cult' - either the cult of false gods, or - what?
I was aged 18, at a convent boarding school in the UK when the news of Kennedy's death came through.
I wrote a sonnet about it some years later from my old school magazine, which I will copy out here if you like.
You are correct sir.
I wonder whether the archipelago can hold against centripetal pressure, and your compelling metaphor withstand reality. I hope so, of course.
(Culture as you describe it overlaps a lot with ritual, too, it seems. But that's another post, I guess.)