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culture seems thrive on two things, or at least from my perspective, Art and War
both are constant, unyielding, yet necessary
and i am using both as blanket terms, art can be visual art, music, dance, and often art is inspired by and also perpetually drives new thought, new reason, new science, new questions
the catalyst to it is the state of war and peace, the expansion of territory, imposing new thought by force, the and the sometimes uneasy truce that occurs after a war, it propel to wards or away from peace or war at any time, and it can refer also to sport itself, sport is a war, competition, domination over your opponent, any kind of competition from popularity to cuisine is war
and as unnecessary as it seems, the battle between art and war is indeed crucial to culture's survival, the epic struggle. say 200 years from now, humanity reaches a state of secular unity, no fundamentalist demeaning art as perverseness, no more war, what happens to culture? it grinds to a stand still, and after all that was accomplished, and as happy as everyone can be, someone won't be, and they'll fight back and culture returns to a state of growth
it's an odd thing to look at from that angle, but it's one of the only ways i can answer the question, it's the Flux of Humanity, often content, but often bored and will pick a fight just for the hell of it
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