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CultState.com is a blog that provides insight to the musings of a very complicated person living amongst broken humans.

Now, I have to ask, which phrase triggered an emotional response from you?  The phrase “very complicated” or the phrase “broken human“?

“Very Complicated”
Do you sympathize with being “very complicated” or did you find the title pretentious?

“Broken Human”

• “That’s a good phrase: Broken human. I implicitly understand what you mean.”
• “Who are you to judge who is broken or not!?”

I’m complicated, too
How complicated can a human being possibly be if we all have the same emotions?  The answer lies in each individual’s ability to look beyond the now.  Those who have realized that they are more than a machine that outputs emotional responses do not bode well in our current Western society.  In the midst of each person having the potential to access the digital equivalent of the Library of Alexandria, intellectual laziness remains rife enough to be considered an epidemic.  Instead of embracing the natural complexity of the Universe we live in, the average person is told to wildly stab outward with an emotionally-fueled Occam’s Razor to ward off the encroaching chaos.  They are panic-stricken with each moment that passes and, thus, have no alternative actions to take.

But not everyone is so fearful.

Some of us enjoy the challenge of this complexity.  Some of us believe we can tame the chaos of the Universe in useful ways.   You and I may not be so complicated to each other, but in the eyes of those who only know fear, we appear as mind-boggling as a Gordian knot.

“You’re right! I am not afraid of what may come!”

I’ma tough guy, so grow up
In a culture that is addicted to entertainment-at-any-cost, we have many examples of people intentionally making themselves enigmatic to increase their appeal.  This activity is a clear manipulation of a social exchange and no one enjoys being blatantly manipulated by strangers.  Before you finalize your conclusion, however, allow me to be blunt:  I do not play political games.  I’ve simply found that a mob is as intelligent as its least intelligent member and the only way to counteract that is to filter reasonable humans from the emotionally-drunk animals.  That filter is complex, and thus, is the source of my complexity.

“Get to the point”

Stupid, stupid people…
Be careful with your conclusion, for the stupidest person in the room is the sharpest one who cannot communicate effectively.  Do not hold your fellow man to an unachievable ideal and expect everyone to fall in line.  If you truly wish for humans to achieve an ideal outcome, then you must acknowledge that most humans operate within the now.  They must be fed easily-digestible instructions every five seconds to get them to march in unison.  While micromanagement of this scale can be tedious and has existed in the past, the larger, more important question goes unasked: Should human behavior be pigeonholed into a single, collective motion?  What are the gains and the benefits?  What are the unintended consequences?  It is easy to mistaken stupidity for disconnection.

“Maybe… where are you going with this?”

I defend the meek!
Ah, the ever-present altruistic hero.   You will never be in short supply.   Whenever Demographic X needs to be Action Y’ed for Cause Z, you’ll be there at the front lines letting the world know just how brave you are.  I used to be like you until I stopped defining my life by my unexplored emotional impulses.  What makes your archetype so difficult to communicate with is that you are the most susceptible to reason, yet, emotional variables will always have a unnaturally hyper influence in your decision-making process.  Fortunately, the natural solution for this mind type is that, historically, they are the first to die in any conflict.   One way or another, nature will balance itself and correct its errors and one day, you just might learn just enough patience to understand that.

The Objective
I claim no flag, no ideology, no clan, and no group exclusivity.   I do not measure my intellectual capacity by the limitations of faith and belief.   I do not limit my intellectual capacity by emotional zealotry or irrational altruistic impulses.  The West prides itself in its adherence to the European Age of Reason, yet, finds itself awash in a never-ending dissonance caused by an intentional lack of reasonableness. Our technology allows for connectivity and communication never before seen, but our impulse to create walls and filters.

Or is it?

I’ve concluded that the Baby Boomer horde, the mouthpieces of modern morality whose votes and interest always takes precedence, has reached the age where collective dementia is beginning to set in.  Is their political machine reflecting this irritability?  Is the original “Me” generation running out of topics to polarize?  This blog will specifically focus on the critical players of modern history to help us remember how we got to where we are today and to remind us that there is still something we can do about it.