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How Culture Is Made

Four stories that span centuries, geographies, and worldviews that reveal how to shape culture and the world around us.

At a small university in London, an astronomy professor holds weekly lectures on “Natural Knowledge,” a Middle Age term describing facts that only God would know — how planets move, how human bodies work, things like that. Within a few years, Washington, D.C., has a thriving punk and hardcore scene, and the Dischord ethic – egalitarian, straight-edge, feminist, anti-fascist, anti-racist, and uncompromising – becomes widely admired and adopted not just in D.C., but around the world. By creating a staunchly egalitarian approach and staying committed to a subculture they love, Dischord doesn’t just put out great music, it changes the direction of culture itself.

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