Bumbling Along

          Dollcee said, I wonder if it is possible to abandon the culture you are born into and adopt another one. 
          Dos said, I doubt that very much. It could be possible to abandon parts of it and adopt parts of another culture, but how would you determine what is unique to your culture and not be simply a variant of universal behaviour of all citizens.

          Dos went on, culture is mainly language and so, you would need to have an extensive command of the language of the culture you intend to adopt, in order to understand what is what and everything besides that.

          Dollcee said, what if citizens, no matter what culture they are part of, fall into three behavioural groups. 
          Dos asked, how would you define these groups?

          Dollcee considered her response for a while and said, there are those who boss others around, there are those who get bossed around and there are a small group of leaders of mankind, who nobody really wants to be associated with, so everyone elevates them, to get away from them.

          Dos said, what about in our culture, except in this neighbourhood, citizens move about in private autos and exist in apartments and don’t associate much with each other and so, they become isolated and don’t know each other.

          Dollcee said, I think that communal type citizens would behave themselves better than isolated ones. 
          Dos said, that is funny, wealthy citizens display their wealth by being demonstrating how isolated they can get. Then, when they come close to other citizens, they have security to insulate them. That is very strange behaviour. Maybe, ordinary citizens are trying emulate wealthy citizens.

          Dollcee said, I had a light bulb moment Dos, the social isolation might explain the attraction of ear buds and tapping on personal devices.

          Dos said, I had a light bulb moment as well, citizen’s behaviour is far too complex for the popular culture content makers like us to even begin to scratch the surface of understanding it. But we have artistic licence to dive head first into everything and no one takes any notice of us, so there is no problem.

          Dollcee said, if we were serious content makers, or if we were mistakenly seen as valid content makers, we could be in a lot of trouble for spreading our ignorance into the culture. How would we deal with that? Getting a knock on the door by the cultural hygiene authorities. We believe you are spreading viruses of ignorance and misleading vulnerable citizens.

          Dos let out a long low whistle, sorry Sir, we are only trying to figure out everything for our own benefit and released it as a record of what we have achieved.

          Dollcee said, I doubt if that would pass the cultural authority hygiene test. Maybe we could try, sorry Sir, we want to be rich and famous celebrities and prove how irresponsible and free we are by being obnoxious, insensitive dunces, who are committed to endorsing lots of products that are absolutely, useless rubbish.

          Dos said, that’s it, we had better keep a record of that, so if we get into trouble, we have a believable story to present.

          Dollcee said, there is so much to consider when you are cultural content makers. All the responsibility that must be considered and really, we are only bumbling along, trying to have fun working things out for ourselves.