Culture Crazed

We can tune out politics, neighbors, and the media, yet culture permeates our lives like conceptual dust passing through our minds. Culture is inexorable because it shapes our psyches before we are conscious of ourselves. Thus, exploring the broad strokes and nuances of culture is a pathway to understanding who we are.Each of the 32 essays in this collection spotlights a cultural theme and guides us from its source to its implications. Consider these examinations of our society’s paradoxical love of originality and imitation, the persistence of poetry, the death of handwriting (this typeface shows mine), and many other subjects not as a final word, but as a conversation starter to initiate awareness of the enduring and vibrant culture we share. Read more