Day 697 - The Weather of Culture

And whether it's raining

The city looks different in the rain. I’m having to plan every move, minimising my time outdoors, adding a layer of thinking to dodge the showers.

Nobody can avoid the weather, and weather is a reasonable analogy for culture. It just bears down upon us, sometimes pouring, sometimes in drought.

Look around you.

Use your sixty seconds today to consider what the cultural weather looks like this morning. The shortest timescale. Right now.

Consider how it looks for you, and how does it look for others?

With the weather - as with culture - we cannot generalise from individual experience to systemic truth.

And things change, rapidly.

We talk of culture as if it were a grand thing, when in truth it’s a snapshot, or judgement, on how wet, hot, or windblown your head is getting right now.