Reflections 3rd September

On the nature of Sterile Cultures, and the Importance of Heretics.

Sterile Cultures

Culture is one of those words that has been taken hostage to serve needs it was never designed for.

Its origins lie in fifteenth-century agriculture: "the tilling of land, act of preparing the earth for crops," from Latin cultura. It was not until the nineteenth century that it began to morph into a distant cousin of the way we use it today: "collective customs and achievements of a people, a particular form of collective intellectual development"

Today, though, perhaps its most prevalent everyday use is in relation to corporate performance to become, according to Investopedia:

Corporate culture refers to the values, beliefs, and behaviours that determine how a company's employees and management interact, perform, and handle business transactions. Often, corporate culture is implied, not expressly defined, and develops organically over time from the cumulative traits of the people that the company hires.

Culture has become thought of as a singular, coherent, achievable …