Definition: Culture

The set of Methods of Decidability Within a Formal or Informal Polity that provide a group with a competitive group evolutionary strategy. – Manners and Dress; – Roles, Status Hierarchies, and Signals – Cuisine, Norms and Traditions; – Formal Institutions, Processes, Property Rights – Myths, Legends, and Histories, – Rituals, Festivals, and Arts of all kinds – Language, Dialect, and Colloquial Expressions – Methods of Communication, Persuasion, Argument (deflation/conflation) – Demonstrated Definition of “Truth” – Metaphysical Value Judgements (they are unaware of) As far as I know this is the definition of a culture: methods of decidability within a formal or informal polity, that provide that polity(group) with a competitive group evolutionary strategy with which they can identify cooperators and avoid non-cooperators, and conflict with competitors.

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