Mother Culture

Mother Culture has been on my mind recently. It is a topic we start to explore and give a name to in GE 11, and it influences everything we do in GE 12. We don't have to put a name to it, it is just "there," all pervasive in everything we discuss.

Where did this idea of Mother Culture come from? Daniel Quinn did not invent it, but he certainly popularized it. Thanks to him, we have a platform to begin our discussions. Thanks to him, a lot of other people do too. I was just doing a search, in fact, and came across this site: http://www.motherculture.org/ Take a look at it and follow some of the links. One of them may offend your religious sensibilities, but take a look anyway. This site is admittedly to the (very) far "left," but, I suppose it is "leftist" thinking that dares to question MC. Personally, I think the "right" are the ones who keep turning the volume up so we can hear MC's constant humming with more clarity.

No, this is not a political post, but one that asks you to think. For your senior projects, start to think not only about the facts you will research, but begin to question why you think about your topic the way that you do. Why do others think they way they do? In GE 11, begin to look critically not only at what you see, but at the lens through which you see. Are we trying to change the way you think? You bet! Because, after all, it is possible that until now everything you have thought, smelled, tasted, felt, touched, and experienced has been influenced by MC. Really, you have never had an original thought or experience in your life. How do you feel about that? Personally, I don't like it at all. Maybe that is why I keep traveling the globe, maybe I am trying to find a place where MC has not sunk her teeth. It certainly isn't Hsinchu! Or Vancouver! Maybe I have been uncomfortable without MC, maybe we all would be. Maybe we think she protects us and cares for us. Maybe that is what we are supposed to think......