Cracking cultural codes.md

Cracking cultural codes

Key ideas

You can understand most cultures if you try!

	flowchart TB
	a(Understanding)
	b(Liking)
	a <--> b
	a --> a
	b --> b

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...to some extent

Components of a culture

1. Canon - Alluded to
2. Jargon - ↑ efficiency, keeps out [[outgroup]]
3. Conventions, vocabulary, techniques
4. Material conditions - what is required to produce thing?
5. Originality, deviance, substyles, greatness

you can (should?) proceed through these in rough order

Method for infiltrating a culture

	flowchart TD
	a(Find a critic you trust)
	b(Where is the quality? What are its aims?)
	c(What are the material conditions?)
	e(What is sociologically remarkable about this culture?)
	d(can't see value?)
	f(When do you accept you can't like it?)
	g(2 weeks for each step)
	a-->b
	b-->c
	c-.->d
	d-->e
	d-->f

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