Culture is hard to see, because we're in it. We absorb it from our families, our friends, our schools, our workplaces and the media. It's all we know. We assume it has to be this way.
Still, we sense something isn't right. We want genuine connection, yet we contort ourselves to fit in. We want to express our gifts, yet we spend our days making money. We want real community, where we're surrounded by folks we care about, yet we're isolated. We want to commune with a higher power, yet we binge-watch Netflix.