Culture & Tradition

Disclaimer: This is a neutral perspective with no intention to hurt any beliefs.

Culture often originates from events that leave a lasting impact on the human mind. These events can range from the first drawings to the emergence of organized languages, from divine experiences involving figures like Moses to atheistic events associated with Buddha.

Roots of Events

Humans have always possessed an inherent instinct to maintain control over their surroundings. This instinct, embedded in the brain, was crucial for survival, prompting early humans to mark events on an ongoing timeline. As the brain evolved, it sought better ways to organize facts and knowledge for more efficient functioning. This led to the practice of recording significant events, giving humans the illusion of control over time, thereby enhancing their sense of security. The natural inclination to organize objects and events can also be observed in the animal kingdom, where day/night cycles and locations are marked (space and time) for more efficient hunting and other activities.

Primitive Events

As records were made and maintained, new information was continually added to existing knowledge over time. This mental behavior of constant addition was driven by growing human creativity, which manifested in both positive and negative dimensions. Creativity led humans to contemplate and address new problems arising in society. But where does this creativity originate? (This will be explored in the next post.) For example, early humans charted the stars to navigate and discovered better materials to create longer-lasting fires.

Advanced Events

In more recent times, the capacity for imagination and thought has expanded significantly, enabling humans to blend realistic imagination with fantastical elements to establish moral values within society. This imagination shaped language and infused culture with meaning. Humans create cultures that reinforce their past roots and beliefs, regardless of their accuracy. A common factor in cultural development is pride, which has led to significant physical and mental differences among humans over time. On a global level, the distinctions we observe today are remnants of past events preserved in human memory, while earlier ones were often forgotten due to wars and territorial conquests. These beliefs began to intermingle, forming similar ideologies with varying nuances. For example, Western philosophies share many similarities among themselves, as do Eastern philosophies. In all these events, new ones emerge while old ones fade away, a cycle that repeats approximately every 2,000 years on both local and global levels.

Events can be categorized into two types:
1. Favorable
2. Unfavorable

Fundamentally Speaking

There is nothing inherently favorable about any event; in truth, every event is unfavorable because it confines the human mind, limiting its ability to think expansively and instead narrowing its perspectives. The so-called favorable events often create strict divisions among humans, rendering them unfavorable for humanity as a whole. (Though they are considered positive in certain contexts.)

Nevertheless, events deemed favorable are celebrated as festivals, with their stories passed down through generations. Conversely, unfavorable events are often treated as days of mourning. Although gatherings are held and stories are remembered. Regardless, both of these events eventually become reasons for mass consumption and exploitation of human psychology.

Based on Logic,
Every culture may seem illogical in itself. However, these cultures foster a sense of togetherness (or security), creating larger human divisions rather than smaller ones. Hundreds of religions have merged to form the major religions we see around the world today. Yet even within a single religion, many divisions arise, often stemming from the superiority complex inherent in human behavior rather than from core religious philosophies.

Culture & Identity

One of the main factors that keeps humans attached to their culture is the sense of identity it provides. Fundamentally, when we reflect deeply, we find no intrinsic identity within ourselves. The sense of security that comes from identifying with a culture has led to the preservation of both culture and religion. However, this attachment sometimes adopts rigid perspectives, leading to conflicts where one culture attempts to dominate others over cycles of 500 years.

Fear and Pride

This is perhaps the most intriguing aspect: fear and pride work in tandem and become the root cause of nearly everything. Many great solutions have emerged from them, as have many great crimes. This conditioned fear within the human mind is a powerful driving force behind most human actions. If we believed that nothing better or worse would result from our actions in the future, we would do nothing, and fear would dissipate (well no). While hope is indeed beneficial, in today's world it is often used to combat false fears while ignoring the actual fears.

Indeed, the world has been driven forward by a combination of fear and pride that been imposed by one human on another human in order to gain power and rank in his eyes which goes for the society as well. Today's battle is not external but internal, within the human mind to find the psychological errors in human thinkings and beliefs, where fear and biased creativity work together to address many problems that were just self-imposed and not reality. The pride is now not ready to accept the flaws of ancestors and be the change that whole society dream for everyday.