For the Culture Chapter #7

Collins writes: "At one time, the pandemic regulated most of our social interactions to the Facebooks of the world whose platforms are all algorithmically designed to curate our media diets to represent the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of people like us. The content that our people share essentially acts as receipts of community membership, including everything from political affiliation to sports fandom. Therefore, the extent to which we are introduced to new ideas, new products, and the like is predominantly based upon and colored by what our communities deem acceptable. This means that today's idea generators have to be even more mindful of the cultural characteristics that govern these communities if they want their ideas to be discussed and adopted by them. The first step to achieving this requires that we widen our perspective on how we think about culture and deepen our understanding of the tribal members who engage in these cultural acts so that we might tailor our company’s or organization’s activities accordingly."

1. I think the phenomenon that Collins refers to as "receipts" of cultural belonging is comically accurate. I think since the age of 14 or 15 if someone in my g circle/tribe did anything considered culturally unacceptable online people would refer to posts and screen shots of what ever they did and use the term "receipts" to describe them.

Oftentimes, I feel Emerson communities feel the need to be all welcoming of everyone, and therefore, what is deemed acceptable and unacceptable also become very rigid rules that people must follow. Pretty much everyone is trying so hard to be woke. The diversity of what people end up making and who's accepted into these communities starts to narrow into a pretty narrow path with little wiggle room. Steeped in online left-wing cancel culture, everyone is so quick to judge and discard anyone they deem unacceptable. It is long after people stop to consider that someone may have just needed better guidance.

2. I think the book as a whole has challenged and impacted how I feel about social culture in my life. I am consitently thinking about why i take specific actions and what that says about the cultures i subscribe too. I am always thinking about how i reflect to society and if the cultures and tribes i subscribe too scream out from the rooftops when i walk in a room or does it take a second for people to get to know me and figure it out. Does everyone in my generation subscribe to as many things as I do? Do we all think about how much we receive from other cultures all the time? Has our heightened access to the internet, compared to previous generations, made it easier for you to learn and perceive another tribe's culture without actually being part of it, yet still able to take pieces of it?