Ep 428 – The Mormon Cultural Membrane
Infants on Thrones
Glenn Ostlund
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2017
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is dedicated to Brother Mike, still stuck in that cultural membrane. |
| 0:07.0 | I hope this scratches that itch for you, Mike. You know what I'm talking about and thanks for your support brother |
| 0:17.3 | In the faith where I was born was a culture of strict obedience and absolute deference to leaders and faith promoting stories and cautionary tales and songs and games and beliefs and customs and rituals and certain things you are supposed to wear and green jello with carrot shavings. |
| 0:34.1 | Yada yada yada yada yada yada. |
| 0:37.4 | And it molded my whole life |
| 0:41.5 | and surrounded me |
| 0:43.4 | a metaphorical cultural membrane, |
| 0:45.8 | but then I poked around at all this stuff |
| 0:50.0 | because something just didn't feel quite right. |
| 0:54.4 | And it cracked and finally broke and then I broke out of my metaphorical cultural membrane. |
| 1:03.0 | We all live in a cultural membrane, a cultural membrane, a cultural membrane, a cultural membrane, |
| 1:11.0 | we all live in a cultural membrane. We all live in a cultural membrane, a cultural membrane, a |
| 1:18.0 | cultural membrane, a cultural membrane. We all live in a cultural membrane a cultural membrane a cultural membrane a cultural |
| 1:27.1 | and brain hey we all live in a culture |
| 1:31.1 | Yeah, you get you get the point, right? |
| 1:34.0 | This is infants on Thrones. |
| 1:37.0 | The philosophies of men beingled with humans. |
| 1:41.0 | We are the core. We are. Welcome back to Infants on Thrones. I'm Glenn Ostland and today you're going to hear a |
| 1:55.4 | conversation between myself and Matt as we watch a YouTube video that was a |
| 2:01.6 | TED Talk done in 2014. I think I said 2012 a couple of times |
| 2:06.9 | during the conversation. It was actually 2014. Jonathan Hight, he's talking about |
| 2:11.6 | this idea of cultural membranes, and Matt and I go off on a few |
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