We live in a Shell Culture
Shell Culture can create some complications in trying to fix a problem in nation. A Shell Culture is a special situation where public values and actual practice diverge; this creates a circumstance where we have two social behaviors in contradiction to each other. One is professed by a system; the other is actually the preferred and fundamental way. Another Shell contradiction would be between two opposing behaviors where each is very extreme, both evolving from an initial shell-thinking contradiction.
For example, we have in the US both extreme individuality and group-think co-existing. Extreme individuality is normal individuality gone wild. At the same time we have group-think created by marketing, entertainment, politics and consumerism. How can this be? It is odd but they do work together, we find individuals a little of both. In cases like this, the strategy of change must be complex. And it is hard to say which is the primary focus in a given situation; only experience really tells us.
Other examples of shell culture include professed values of democracy, equality, personal freedom, creativity and more. The USA is a great shell culture where many contradictions can be found between reality and image.
Cage Innoye
Axxiad News