It is not the world that we come into, but culture. We grow into the world in a natural way, eat natural foods, behave in natural ways, and it is only when we become conditioned by our parents through their culture that we as children start to lose our natural state of being. Children are not viewed as human beings but instead as candidates for the human race, and only if the child will cooperate with us and assume our culture will they be human. It is this constant conflict of our true nature and our culture which to me is one of the largest forces influencing who we are and how we identify ourselves as individuals.
The culture we live in is not one that is natural. The way in which we live is not a natural state of living, with my largest point being that if it was, there would not be so many individuals who have such a difficulty finding peace and contentment. I think that it is culture that makes us feel alienated and out of place. It should be completely obvious that we are an integral part of the world and could not exist without it. Our culture, however, tends to separate us from nature and in doing so creates a massive disharmony between us and reality which brings us to situation we find ourselves in, in which we are destroying the planet, and there is endless fighting, poverty and starvation. Needless to say I believe that we need a large shift in culture if we are to not only survive, but thrive on this planet and in our own skin.
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