Culture Is Slavery

Having a certain understanding of social norms and common medians of communication can be a useful tool, but they are nothing more then that. There is nothing holy in culture, and I am very confused as to why people have and do treat it as if there is and were.  Why is that I should be so respectful of a certain set of social norms? Why should I try and understand and have a reverence for culture?

As soon as social norms become anything more then a useful tool is the moment culture becomes slavery.

I wear pants to have a more positive social experience, I speak English so I can communicate with others, I do not wear pants because its what people "should" do. I do not speak English because its the best language and I take pride in my culture.  There is nothing wrong with being outside social norms, and there is nothing wrong with conforming with them.  The morality of the actions is in the action alone. Conformity vs non-conformity has nothing do with the equation.

If we embrace culture for the sake of culture is will always end at the expense of the individual.  The fact that girls at the age of 12 in Africa are sexual mutilated is not "just their culture" its not "just how things are" its not "just how they do things around there" it is an evil act.  It is a collective mass deciding that it is their right to put their will on an individual human being.

I ask anyone and everyone right now. Why?  By what standard? That by what people think and feel you can determine right and wrong?  That just because lots of people in one geographical area think something is ok, then it becomes ok?

Culture is something we overcome! Not embrace! Question any group of people that think they own you! Because no one owns you, no matter how many people there are, no matter how many guns they have, no one owns you.  Always remember that.