Culture must be Illusion!!! (2)

Professor Brad of NUS whose original view says that culture is not an illusion because cultural products and ideas generally stay quite the same; but is 'quite' sufficient of non-illusion is what we will investigate.

Sup Brad,

If you would say we can change the way we see the world, and if the world includes culture of any definition, then isn't that intuitive of illusion and deception? Therefore, the world and therefore culture has to be illusion, isn't so? Similarly, in class we were talking that the ways and behaviours and objects or tools of lesson instruction constituted the culture of ES2007s, but what happens when a better projector or light bulb comes along and replaces the existing ones in the classroom; or that small things such as the light intensity deteoriation over the years due to continual use and filament decomposition; or that newer badges of students in future classes bring a slightly different sort of mentality and rules of behavior of professional communication in that they recommend using MySpace to be incorporated somewhere in the rubric of the module; then change has been implicated, isn't so? And if by virtue of change; illusion must also implicated, because absolute non-illusory products and elements do not downshift or ever upscale, isn't that so?

There was a reason the ancient philosophers Plato and Heraclitus said that NO TWO CONFIGURATIONS OF FLOW OF WATER ARE THE SAME IN A RIVER AT ANY GIVEN POINT OF TIME IN SPACE!!!! They are ever-changing, even a 0.1 percentage difference of the configuration is change; and by that, even a 0.1 percent decrease in the intensity of lights in our classrooms over time; or the moods and frequencies and depth of students' responses and interactions in the classroom, is enough to make no two cultures of ES2007s the same that spans the time continuum!!!!

Illusion is that particular of change, and while I know you say that generally the fundamentals of ES2007s don't change, I fully understood that. But when you talk about culture, person, or anything in this world, particularity is of utmost importance; you dont just assume Mark is just like another idiot you taught, or Cynthia behaved like one of the modest girls in your 2007 inaugural class. Rather, each person is particularly different from another, and each instance of time or each day of the week in which we have ES2007s class and therefore its culture is also different from one another!!! That was what Plato and Heraclitus were essentially getting at!!!

They have in fact implicitly implied that there is one sort of culture that is absolutely and forever binding; and given my perennial bias, I'm sure you knew what it was!!! Haha!

Cheers