Cezar, culture depreciates on the flip of a coin, nothing depreciates faster without massive overlaying of ritual. Ritual is tactical thought with a strategic mindset forced into the unconscious.
Technical thought dominates currently. The capacity to infinitely reorient to new art, ideas, landmarks, philosophies is instant and perishable.
This is cultivating aspects of INTJ thought- it’s very much our civilization. The fundamental issue is, most people can’t cognitively pull off that thinking style.
Eventually, our tech will formalize, much as early twentieth century tech did, and variations will narrow.
My area went from wilderness to the very heart of the US’s industrialization process, and then collapsed. Our infrastructure was attuned- goads, rails, and bridges to tax collection and civic administration, to a dualism of capitalism working with democracy. Now it’s entrenched socialistic taxing, police operating not through tax but grants (hence our inability to control them), and the rise of big as well as small casinos.
The culture is Facebook, YouTube. Teachers telling them massive debt for college is only way to succeed, mortgage gets a house, and they are entitled to dream any dream, so long as its degree backed.
I know your Yugoslavia was fucked up by socialism too, but wasn’t perfect prior either. Your village is impoverished. However, they are also stagnant… largely unable to leave.
Many do leave here… their teachers tell them ‘so and so has the best financial possibilities’ and those most easiest lured my safety, easy wealth, and short term sheltered gain rush it. If its a trade, they glut the market with the skill, if another country, they eagerly learn the language.
However, everything these days is largely group think internationally.
It’s easier for me to train a student in military philosophy because despite the ways you rework the logic of the mind over a few years to absorb it, the physical component sets you isolated… hiking, or learning to think on the basis of threat assessment first… these are solitary acts even when in a group. It’s a better platform for long term growth.
This being martial philosophy is as broad and ancient as civil schools of philosophy. The idea of a corps maintaining a ‘culture of rules and rituals’ is easy to believe, of long term philosophical emphasis much less… it’s been tried countless times, and produces unique paradoxes in adaption… it’s not possible.
I prefer technological fixes. Fix food supply, for my camera tech to stabilize drug/terrorism, etc that can be built upon by others down the road.
This current culture of socialism, civic neglect, and hatred of forms and rituals will pass… we entered into it during the Rosicrucian era, the rebellions of the young hegelians (Nietzsche included) overthrew much in Europe… But all it did was make certain personality types in culture exhibit the same shit headed behaviors of the old regime.
We live in a era of self hatred, confusion, atheism, suicide, and drug use… and we’re told it’s reason- the triumph of enlightenment. We even have a doctor in the US delivering babies and then decapitating them! Yes, reason indeed. Soylent Green was reason too.
It will pass, there is too much instability and malaise, too much of the population is frantic for a solution… hence the embrace of a easy fix, in large part the cause of the crisis- socialism.
Once it occurs to administrators that having a settled, productive and largely self sufficient population is a good thing, and not the far flung absurd acrobatics of this age of neglect and poorly thought out idealism, things will change.
The only growth construction wise in the US, using new architecture, are spiraling, out of control university complexes teaching everything quite poorly… the rush to standardize electronic innovations and intergrate them more and more intuitively sounds great to the universities, but will eventually in tern be their undoings.
Once that happens, it will be very difficult for the personality types, such as Sauwelios, to disperse their ideas in a acceptable format. Likewise, INTJs will have less influence as a IPhone version 47 just isn’t going to be anymore impressing than the ten version prior to it… with the major apps preloaded.
Once that happens, your era of stagnant, maliable culture will reoccure. It’s a kind of kyklos cycle for personality receptivity to civilization. When writing and ocean trade occur, we had a similar destabilization.