"As you state it is the collective that really makes up culture"
i said no such thing
again: if a 'free market' is the measurable median of the economic transactions between, among, and of, INDIVIDUALS, then so too is 'culture' the measurable median of the INDIVIDUAL, transactions between writer and reader, sculptor and viewer, filmographer and film-watcher and so on
there is no aggregate or collective mind
as you say, merc, "the contributions of many that make up culture"
many what?
many 'ones'
the measurable median of a cluster of singular events doesn't make singular events a single event...the median only measures the similar consequences or outcomes of these similar, but separate, events, it doesn't homogenize them (despite the desperate efforts of hegel and marx to do just that)
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and no: i'm not irish
i just don't care for the caps key ('cept for on MY terms)...or the period key (a period is nuthin' but a hobbled ellipses)...or the...
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i don't even know who jim is...and: i don't take tests