For Consideration: Culture Creates Groups

It has been believed that groups create culture.

1. It is more deeply true that culture creates groups. That is, groups emerge into being around mutualities of cultural practice. Graffiti is a case in point.

2. Individuals in these groups are unaware of culture’s group-creating mechanisms.

3. Groups create anti-groups in the image of one another’s ‘shadows.’

4. Taken together, groups and culture create history. Stability first, then change.