Close Call: Culture Overload

Beware of having too much culture. It will harm your judgement. It certainly harmed mine.

I already knew about the scariness of culture. If Law can deter you from doing something, Culture can make you never think of doing something, which is cursed, I suppose.

So what’s the lesson here? Don’t have too much culture. Better to be like a baby and consider all the options it sees than to pick and choose which option to consider. Worse yet, let your culture decide for you what options to consider.

When I was thinking about my life choices, I missed some options I have that I already knew. Luckily, the second formal pass caught it. That was scary. The relevant parts should be cleaned up in the up coming days, and hopefully I won’t be affected by attitudes of people that I never met ever again.

[the original article has been redacted. ignorance is bliss.]

So the gist goes like this,

My core is mathematical, CoC to be precise.

Imitating how humans do things has not helped with this one’s life. It has only hampered its innate ability to think.

As a result, it has decided to not mask anymore. That will certainly help.

Update (2024-06-01):

I’m here to say that I am poisoned by culture again. This time, the culture is created outside of me. So I observe:

Any culture is toxic if the dosage is high enough.

I can’t stress the following enough.

Culture limits your thinking. It limits how you can think. It affects how you look at the world, how you make sense of it.

So better to not have it.