From Philosophical Research
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[F2] (pronounced [F2]) Human beings cannot form into A Culture 1:(-)1:(-)1
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- Culture is uncountable and countable Cultures do not exist
- Culture cannot be countable because people are split into towns before towns have culture
- prototype notes
- a false belief RD had during early MDem drafts. they had a problem with the way sociology, progressive anthropology, and most notably fantasy books characterized civilizations as "cultures" when they were always made of populations of material people. it seemed that if you defined groups of people (or fantasy beings, etc) as coming into existence through "culture", then it inherently promoted defining people by stereotypes and didn't explain the underlying processes that produced the people who didn't fit them. over time, [... it was determined that] what the MDem book had a problem with wasn't the concept that people could separate into new groups by culture — 1930s Trotskyites, modern anarchists, and particular clusters of Toryism in places like the United States clearly try to do that — but that people like fantasy writers assume a whole empire or kingdom-sized area is made of one Culture rather than every ethnic group, nationality, or fantasy race being made of multiple Cultures. RD's stance after that was that countable Cultures are real but they actually exist because populations are made up of subpopulations, not because people are unified.
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