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Culture:
"I use ‘culture’ in a biological sense. There are certain growths, intercomplementations of culture in human affairs, cumulations of poetry, painting, art, knowledge, and inventories of our understandings. But much of culture is highly conditioned reflexes, often very impeding reflexes. Our educational system is the essence of it. I question whether the word ‘culture’ is useful; it does not necessarily represent a net gain all the time.
"At its most ambiguous it represents a closed system of two kinds of people: the cultivated and the uncultivated.
“There is, of course, a synergetic interaction of all of humanity and the 100,000 nuances of definitions of all our experiences in the dictionary are a great memorial to humanity. (It’s different in the orient due to the holdover of ideographs which represent a different way of generalizing.)”
