How can people create their own culture?
Well… in a way, that’s sort of what I’m trying to do with my friends right now. It involves deciding what you consider important and unimportant. It involves rejecting any cultural more that exists solely to enforce something unimportant, and creating your own customs to enforce the things you do find important. It involves bringing people in to the new culture a few at a time, finding people who get what you’re going for. It involves creating your own rituals. The rituals could be something as involved as church on Sunday or seances on Friday, or it could be something as silly as Tuesday night poker games or a Saturday morning tea party. And it involves ignoring the dominant culture. You’re not there to antagonize them. You’re there to coexist with them, under their radar. You can’t let their standards rule you, but you have to understand you can’t rule them either. A lot of mini-cultures work by virtue of being small. It helps to not be noticed; it also helps to limit the people in
