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A shared cultural system stabilizes human interaction, but is also a system of value—a hierarchy of value, where some things are given priority and importance and others are not. In the absence of such a system of value, people simply cannot act. In fact, they can’t even perceive, because both action and perception require a goal, and a valid goal is, by necessity, something valued.
12 Rules for Life
Jordan B. Peterson, Norman Doidge (Forward), Ethan Van Sciver (Illustrator)
Saying a certain thing in a certain way can set off the emotions of their target and cause them to react.
How to Kill a Narcissist
JH Simon
It will be seen that, using devices not that different from ones described above in the sperm bank example, one such organization, World Vision Canada, which is neither better nor worse than thousands of others, “commodifies philanthropy by constructing poverty and the poor as objects through which the sponsor/consumer may find satisfaction and fulfilment” (Jeffreys 2002).
Concepts of Capital
Jacek Tittenbrun
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