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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Geez, I am a PP and some people are being weirdly hostile about this benign question. And I actually am a New Yorker, so theoretically I should be the nastiest person on this thread! I think it’s an interesting question. Especially because (in my opinion) “culture” is not a monolith and is ever evolving. It’s particularly interesting to me because there have been tectonic shifts in the culture of my profession (medicine) in the last 25 years or so, which has been fascinating (and sometimes distressing) to observe. I have often wondered how some cultural touchstones endured, while others fell out of favor over time. For instance, the idea of a “NY intellectual” persists from the 70’s and 80’s. I think is no longer culturally relevant or influential (at least in my circles in NYC), but clearly lots of people disagree. Or just find me totally uncultured! But I do wonder what from the current time will be considered “culture” 100 years from now (assuming some catastrophic event doesn’t end society as we know it). Because if we can’t even agree on a definition, then how do we seek it out?[/quote] What were the shifts in the culture of medicine if you don’t mind? Thank you for your post. This is the kind of conversation I am not part of in real life unfortunately (though I used to be able to talk to a lot of well educated Americans when I was a teen and young adult). As for 100 years from now, I think the process will be twofold. On the one hand, elite little circles of cultured people will become even more selective and obscure than they are now. On the other hand, mass culture or popular culture will accumulate part of what’s now considered more “elite” culture and will become more vibrant than ever. -OP [/quote]
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