Materialism, Culture, and Religion
The awareness of one's person within the recognition of his/her community including family, culture and religion are contributing factors of maintaining membership for that group. And participation in activities goes a long way in the development of character of the young member an investment in the future of that community.
We are told that professional experts with certified qualifications are the ones who know best and we must listen and follow their advice. It's said that these professionals have earned their qualifications by studying and have spent money to earn it. His/her practice is registered and charges a fee for a service. And yet at the same time, we have been enduring the Great Recession for some time now, but the so-called experts are the only ones who don't seem to suffer the social consequences.
Anyone who had experienced a defect of character or had failed a social expectation is unlikely to commit the same mistake again unless there's something wrong with him/her. Then the old hands may still function successfully but unlikely to be considered in the fashion of modern expectations.
And there lies the commercial factor which seems to attract to the newness of something associated with the glitter of the material that reflects the expectation of time. And this is the motivation awareness of modern character that is recognised not by social and objective values of culture and religion, but by media promotion of material production. In a way, his/her young character is molded by the material fashion of time.
In the modern world, to be clever is to be commercially successful and earn money, so everything is surrounded in a market environment. It involves public relations in the promotion and recognition of character within the material framework of the market. Only that the market has fostered not the objective type, or free and responsible individuals, but rather dependent consumers who are now motivated by addictions and material desire. And the market collapses at the end of a trend that feeds the character until another fetish emerges. But the maintenance of material character is reinforced by economic reformations and commercial aspirations in the establishment of that material self construct.
Every new life born into the community is inherent of traditional expectations responsible for the upbringing of future members of society. But today in the modern, the commercial world has legislated culture and religion outside of the new member's life. Only materialism and new age literature are freely available in some classrooms and public agencies. It is reinforcing the domination of the material self construct in the innocent child's ID.
The formation of ID is the result of competing social forces between the mode of organisation the material means of physical survival; between materialism, culture, and religion. But unfair advantage by coercive social engineering and material indoctrination has victimised another future member of society.
When young character is nurtured, he/she is absorbing the surrounding environment and likely to be influenced by popular demands of selfish desire. The young is obviously inclined towards selfish desire in the development of his/her ID. Culture usually imposes protocols while religion teaches moral values. Obviously, the development of the physical world is to discover feelings and senses before making sense of oneself later by awareness of culture and religion in the objective of being.
I have defined culture as the validation of tribal habits and customs from their subjective material aspects to objective purpose binding their groups. Some aspects of the arts and crafts engraved symbolic and ancestral meanings which are sometimes subjective, but their modern materialisation ether transforms that symbolic agent into objective existent or becomes a means of subjective reinforcement of the material. Artifacts, practice and demonstrative performance have earned commercial profits for some. Even in the arts and the cultural world they don't seem to survive in the modern without materialising its values. And like temporary economic booms in material developments, it is in the commercialisation of values that erode culture from tradition to the modern desires of the material world. It is like another fetish that wears away after a novelty as the material or commercial and cultural erosion in time that fades away.
That leaves self discovery at the point of realisation in the emergence. Unfortunately for some, the ID has already dominated by commercial education and the surrounding market of society. More than often the individual will leave his/her family, culture, and religion to pursue pre-determined ambitious ends indoctrinated at school and social engineering by politics of time. But even in the fulfillment of material ambitions and desire hasn't solved the problem of the economy. It has only complicated it.
The commercialisation of life may be good for gaining temporary profit but at the expense of stable long term economic developments and with impact to happiness in the enjoyment of objective being.
Life is linear in the material alone and human cannot fulfill his/her whole life by a linear existent. And this linear development is imposed by the commercialisation of the family, their culture, and religion. The practice of religion and other minority cultures are either coerced or legislated against and are banned in public places and in the classroom.
In reality, some of the best decisions ever made are by those who have made mistakes and experienced shortfall in character for a time. Because they have learned by experience, they are not likely to make the same mistakes again unless of course there's something seriously wrong. And depending on certain factors such as culture and gender, these individuals' background has banned them from considerations for employments or access to resources and participation in general activities of society. They bear the 'red card' of commercialisation! The individual who is disadvantaged for life is isolated outside commercial boundaries.
Some are forced to sell their soul to the commercial god in order to meet his/her material desire; that self awareness and recognition he/she so desperately craves for in order to feel 'belong' once again. And if you have failed the indoctrination imposition at birth, you would still have to pass the trap set up by the commercial red card down the road.
Social awareness of oneself and recognition by the environment is very strong in the development and moulding of character. Deriving from tribal habits and customs, validation from tribal subjective behaviour to culture is naturally established to provide for and to protect members of the group. What is seen from the outside is not what is experienced in the inside. Religion at the same time practices the principle of forgiveness which sanctions the making good of the wrong and restoration of relations. You don't have to sell your soul in order to feel belong, as you are born a life time member of humanity.
Culture and Religion are fundamental elements of human development just as material means of sustaining the physical condition. To indoctrinate and coerce individuals from the exercise of their inalienable rights is a violation that has contributed to temporary economic developments which have now faded with time. To make religion and culture available free choices in the classroom only enriches liberty and choices for the future quality of life. It is the basis of stability of the social organisation of the economy or society.
So, it follows therefore that society consists of three parts: the Physical; the Cultural; and the Religious. The Physical involves with the means of sustaining physical life; the Cultural involves with the means of sustaining the arts and culture or intellectual pursue of human civilisation; and the Religious involves with maintenance of spiritual life. Now the physical and its aspects including politics must not cross over the boundaries of culture or religion. It cannot make laws to ban religion or to legalise abortion etc, and at the same time religion cannot interfere with manufacturing of material production. That must surely allow for individual choices.
When the Physical, the Cultural, and the Religious come together, Society in its totality exists, and not represented by its individual linear part itself.