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Postscript | Jean-Paul Baillargeon
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In its widest sense [culture is] a stock of codes, of ways of being and doing essential to our actions as well as to our being together. Our conscience is shrouded in this secondary universe, where we are pursuing a quest for the meaning of our lives [...] Learning renders the world understandable; beliefs suggest what we might want to dedicate our lives to; art and literature populate our imaginations; media confide their mythologies. Thanks to culture, humanity can detach itself from the monotonous repetition our animal condition dooms us to; it can also inscribe itself into a history that leads to an accumulation of works and a foreshadowing of the future.
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