title: Cultural Vision: A Memeplex for the Cultural Evolution
author: Jeffrey Knutson
description: J. Martin Knutsen has been independently researching human culture and modern civilization?s impact on the Earth?s biosphere since 1994. Martin has absorbed the diverse teachings of some of the greatest minds of the 20th century and has brought them together in a unified theory. As a jazz pianist, Martin?s sense of cultural creativeness accomplishes what more narrowly focused theorists have been unable to discover. Martin combines the research from many experts in many varied fields of study to create a fresh outlook on humanity?s spiritual relationship with our physical selves, each other, and all life on Earth.
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  AGAIN AND ALWAYS—FOR ELI
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Becoming human is becoming individual, and we become individual under the
  guidance of cultural patterns … which give form, order, point, and direction
  to our lives.… [But] we must … descend into detail, past the misleading tags,
  past the metaphysical types, past the empty similarities, to grasp firmly the
  essential character of not only the various cultures but the various sorts of
  individuals within each culture, if we wish to encounter humanity face to
  face_.
  
  
  —CLIFFORD GEERTZ
  
  
  _The Interpretation of Culture_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  CONTENTS
  
  
  [ACKNOWLEDGMENTS](frontmatter2.html)
  
  
  [PREFACE](frontmatter3.html)
  
  
  [THE CAST](frontmatter4.html)
  
  
  [PART ONE **GROWING UP**](part1.html)
  
  
  [PART TWO **YOUNG ADULTHOOD**](part2.html)
  
  
  [PART THREE **THE EARLY SIXTIES**](part3.html)
  
  
  [PART FOUR **THE MID-SIXTIES**](part4.html)
  
  
  [PART FIVE