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Thoughts on the Culture Code, by Clotaire Rapaille
Part 4: Keep Dreaming: America in the eyes of Europe

So far in this series of thoughts based on The Culture Code, by cultural anthropologist and marketing Guru, Clotaire Rappaille, we’ve talked about Emotional Imprinting and the meaning of “toilet paper”, “sex” [...]

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Jacques Barzun writes:

It is a noteworthy feature of 20th century culture that for the first time in over a thousand years its educated class is not expected to be at least bilingual.

Dean Briggs of Harvard College (c. 1900) noted that

The new degree of Bachelor of Science does not guarantee that the [...]

The Culture Code - Seduction, Sex and Love in America

Last week’s principle: Emotion is the energy required to learn anything
Last week’s example: Toilet paper
A Conversation on The Culture Code by Clotaire Rapaille

Today let’s talk about seduction, sex and love. Yes, you’ll want to link to this article and forward it to all your friends. [...]

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The Culture Code - Why we live and buy as we do

As Christ followers in the west, we must take advantage of our priviledge to “exegete” scripture. What are these ancient people trying to say to each other about what is meaningful to them? We must also “exegete” the cultures of [...]

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Mel Gibson’s new movie, Apocalypto, though released in December, is not exactly your holiday fare. Mark Marsden and I took some time this past Friday to review this gory, action filled historical fiction. Emphasis on the fiction.

While not seasonally appropriate, Apocalypto does provide some fodder in our search for a [...]

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In 1946, only 8,000 homes, all of which were in the USA, had television.

As a child growing up in El Salvador, I remember anticipating the afternoon Disney cartoons. My younger brother, Erwin, and I would sit behind TV trays, eating corn tamales “con crema”, faithfully waiting for the “snow” to stop and the [...]

of mystic warriors traveling by camel over the most
hostile terrains for the chance to guide others towards the mystic…

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A Mystic Leader’s Crash Course
Part 3: Light

The role of the leader is

to describe the world we live in
to strive to live in the world he describes with moral authenticity
to call others to join him in a quest to save the universe

Describing the world in which we live is increasingly complex given the [...]

The church will not rise with an appropriate primal scream unless she see’s the earth’s children all trapped in the dragon’s lair of evil, unable to breath until the gospel comes, and unless she experiences a gut wrenching deliverance from this power herself.

The role of a leader is to describe the world we live in and to show others how to live in that world with moral authenticity.