The culture and the culture

The societal culture is a robber of individuality. It tries to enforce one-size-fits-all, mass produced, values and activities. It wants blind-followers and compliance.

There is another culture, an individualistic culture, where the individual exposes himself to a wide variety of cultures and picks and chooses cultural bits and pieces, as suit him and matches his temperament. He adopts them, mixes them, changes them, add some individual touches and the culture becomes him and he the culture; his very own culture; that flows and evolves with the individual. He molds the adopted culture bits and the individualized culture molds him. He owns it and it owns him. It's like an advanced sort of pet-owner relationship; at a certain point in relationship, the distinction between the owner and the pet disappears, and it becomes hard to say whether the owner owns the pet or is it the pet which owns the owner.