Explore the Cultural Schism between Ancient and Modern Times:
What is the state of culture in the world today? In general, is culture changing?
At age twenty, is Johnny, Juan, or Johan as financially and socially stable as when their grandfather turned twenty? Is Mary, Mia, or Maria teaching their children, and employed like their grandmother at age twenty? If not, culture is changing.
Change involves many contributing factors. Relating to Ancient Culture compares modern society with that of our parents, grandparents, and even ancient culture in an attempt to solve the riddle of what caused such a cultural shift.
Since the beginning of time, humans have always had to satisfy their basic needs: food, clothing, shelter, and training children to insure they are self-sustaining. If basic cultural needs remain the same, why does the current culture seem to be changing more than in the past?
What will be some of the consequences of current societal practices?
• Ancient life followed nature.
• A culture can only develop as its educated are gainfully employed.
• Early cultural awareness starts at home.
• At what age do parents give children responsibility? If it is at college graduation, they are two decades too late. Dependency is taught.
• Why were teenagers old enough to work eight hundred years ago, but not today?
• Based on the historical accomplishments of people whose lives were half the current lifespan, we wean later, learn slower, and are less mentally developed upon entering adulthood.
• Team approach is often preferred over individual initiative.
• Innovation has slowed since the 1960s as the adoption rate of technology has quickened.
• Fascination with technological gadgets has replaced intellectual pursuit.
With current comparisons, disputable contentions, and subtle humor, discover how and why society is being transformed. Enjoy Relating to Ancient Culture and the Mysterious Agent Changing It. For more detail see: www.relatingtoancients.com.
Table of Content
Introduction:
Culture is survival. Memory is culture. Society is losing all three. Survival is in jeopardy when memory, books, and clouds disappear.
It is never the job of others to remember your memories. Relating to Ancient Culture can only be accomplished through memories. Past thoughts create cultural understanding.
Human culture is changing, but why? Who has a vested interest in the status quo? Who cares about the apathetic subject? Wietgrefe.
Idling through memories, get irked. Become exasperated. Yearn. Laugh. Learn. Question societal infections for better or worse.
Twenty riddles throughout this book reveal a common, yet mysterious, cultural agent of change. Be shocked at what must change to survive.
Chapter 1: Cultural Shift
What is culture? What changes it?
Many archeologists, anthropologists, ecologists, ethologists, etiologists, historians, kinesiologists, linguists, physiologists, polyglots, psychologists, sociologists, theologians, and others have studied ancient cultures. Fossils, structures, landscapes, mummies, scripts, and even deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) provide clues, but clues are merely inklings.
How do you know culture if you have not lived it? I will offer an inkling of how this book is Relating to Ancient Culture.
Culture for most people develops around family and always has. Daughters learned from their mothers and grandmothers, and boys until they come of age tagged along behind their fathers and grandfathers. Historically, children followed the career of their parents. For thousands of years, most people benefited from the cultural experiences of their family.
Other than family, what established cultural experience?
MONEY: WANTS VERSUS NEEDS
Human culture developed around food accumulation and establishment of shelter. Until recently, all cultures were primarily rural and survived off of natural resources alone….
Households without children are not sustainable, hence schools are not needed…. The service sector is primarily high-tech gadgetry that nobody needs to survive.
Education may cultivate, but cultivation produces nothing—just the opposite. Cultivation is also designed to destroy. In society, does cultivation provide structured production and weaning, or imply ignorance, incompetence, and self-centeredness? It needs the former and cannot survive on the latter….
Investment in the school system is overhead cost—a cost justified by calling it “education.” Does the public endure those costs to justify a child’s education? Apparently. Or, are other factors involved? Yes….
How many parents today give responsibility to their children? What age do parents give responsibility? If it is at college graduation, they are two decades too late….
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
1 Cultural Shift 1
2 Ancient 11
3 Family Learning 17
4 Basic Training 27
5 Preschool 33
6 Spectator 45
7 Teams 57
8 Free Range 77
9 Freebies 99
10 Feed the Chickens 111
11 I’m a State. 129
12 Change or Punt 141
13 Learning Race 153
14 Marbles 177
viii Contents
15 Servants 181
16 Wean or Whine 195
17 After Weaning 211
18 School-age Migration 227
19 Dog Trick 237
20 Radar 245
21 Don’t Never Know 257
22 Sustainable Culture 273
Epilogue 279
What may be—RIP
Bibliography 293
Index 299
About the author
GARY W. WIETGREFE (pronounced wit’grif)For the past five years without a car or home, Gary and his wife, Patricia, traveled the world with a backpack and observed: Some places have bookstores and family-owned ‘mom and pop shops’; others do not. Some brick and mortar retailers thrive in places while others strive to stay alive. Why?
In many locations, education is intermittent with children helping families survive. Elsewhere, too many children forced schools to operate two shifts. Often in the developed world, children try to skip school. He investigated why there were differences.
As an inventor, researcher, military intelligence veteran, economist, agriculturalist, systems developer, societal explorer, and author, Gary has observed and documented his findings from his many travels and experiences.
What does ancient mean? Could the difference between modern and ancient be the same reason grandparents buy books and newspapers and younger generations read electronic books, blogs, and engage social media on devices?
His books Relating to Ancient Culture and Relating to Ancient Learning help answer those profound questions.
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