{"id":5831,"date":"2023-05-06T13:36:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T11:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matehamori.com\/lets-share\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T11:36:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:36:14","slug":"lets-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matehamori.com\/en\/lets-share\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s share!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid in_container\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h2><strong>There\u2019s a word that gives me shivers, chills down my spine, solid nausea, in a bad sense, unfortunately I can&#8217;t help it. The word spread in public discourse at the speed of covid, and journalists happily tossed \u2018oven-ready\u2019 solutions into the ether without any distracting thinking or such, with a happy\/vacant smile, and now it has become a common term to intersperse wording in laws and serious analyses.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Ah, well. We\u2019ve unfortunately seen expressions like \u201cculture\u201d of consumption, <strong>but now we&#8217;re here with \u201cculture consumption\u201d. Which is such bullshit as love-planning, pain culture, soup-slicing, slimming jelly,<\/strong> etc. Culture \u2013 whatever it is, but let&#8217;s say it&#8217;s mostly a state of being, or rather a direction of it \u2013 cannot be consumed. Moreover, consumption is nowadays a word with increasingly negative connotations, which is immediately associated in the imagination with the idea of defecation, of getting rid of the substance consumed (including the associated stench).<\/p>\n<p>So consumption is basically a consuming, decomposing, so to speak, a saprophytic behavior: it uses the energy of dead creatures to survive. At first sight, it\u2019s all right to think of going to a concert as a way of recycling the intellectual products of dead beings (de-composers) for the purpose of relaxing or contemplating or for whatever purpose. But that\u2019s not culture. Culture does not degrade, it creates. It is not dead, it is alive; in fact, it is the very medium of life in a certain social approach. <strong>And we don\u2019t consume it, but we share it<\/strong>. Those who attend a concert are not passive consumers (a.k.a. fungi), but are an essential component of active creation and recreation. It participates in bringing the resurgence of music to life, <em>sharing<\/em> the experience with others, creating a community in the moment when hundreds of people are raving \/ weeping \/ mourning \/ listening in silence \/ boring \/ laughing together.<\/p>\n<p>A classical, humanist human being sharing culture couldn\u2019t be further from the consumer, the postmodern human caricature who shovels trash food with desperate loneliness. That\u2019s the reason why people still go to concerts, to theatre, and I would venture, to church, and perhaps even more \u2013 because we have a need for sharing, the number one building block of community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Because consuming is a damn lonely thing to do, and loneliness, along with emptiness, is what we humans fear the most.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>______________<\/p>\n<p><em>Author: M\u00e1t\u00e9 H\u00e1mori<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Culture does not degrade, it creates. It is not dead, it is alive; in fact, it is the very medium of life in a certain social approach. 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