Cultural View

We understand the need to launch a new cultural renaissance aimed at enriching our common understanding of the beauty of being human and the beauty of human cultures. Human development and civilization, in all its myriad forms, is a product of the planet's discrete human cultures. Every people, every nation, every society has a culture. Cultures borrow from and reinforce each other as documented by historians dating back to Herodotus and demonstrated by such talented individuals as Pablo Picasso.

We are talking about launching an all around cultural renaissance, not just culture in the sense of artistic and related phenomena, but cultural in the holistic sense, culture as everything that human beings or sets of discrete, specific human beings do, which are the rivulets of universal human culture.

Contemporary Culture

There are many players in our contemporary culture. We will touch on many aspects of today's society both good and bad. Take a look at these YouTube videos for a quite overview of where we are today.

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Like many of you viewing this site all forms of human culture fascinate the owners of Cultural View. We appreciate Mozart, Bach and Beethoven to Nancy Wilson, War and Bob Marley; traditional African art to Picasso's cubist derivatives of African art...from the 70s musical Hair to Cats. From the Red Badge of Courage to The Great Gatsby, Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, The Grapes of Wrath to The Scarlet Letter, the Purloined Letter, Agatha Christie's Poirot and Miss Marple adventures to Shakespeare's Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Mac Beth and much much more. We are into films from to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Catch 22 and The God Father.

We get into Columbo, Foyle's War, Jerry Seinfeld, Men Behaving Badly, The Black Adder, Shrek, Honex, Jeeves, and Wooster and Absolutely Fabulous.

We salute the contribution of Association Football, Artistic Gymnastic, the NCAA Basketball Championship. Chinese Ballet, ballets such as The Nutcracker and The Green Table, Stepping tournaments, Country Line Dancing, Lord of the Dance to Ballroom Dancing.

We can curl up and read a good Walter Mitty tale, Homer's Iliad, Herodotus' The Histories, a tome on the History of Physical Education, Freud's Mose and Monotheism, good romantic erotica or the rather gory history of folks like the Medicis and the Borgias...

We are deeply into a wide range of the human cultural fabric from ecology, human relationships, films, music, the fine arts, knitting, quilting, photography cooking, dancing, sewing, purely economic and financial matters, psychological conditioning, sports, education, music, politics, modes of organizations and any and everything else that we humans do.

So we have tried to create a website that reflects our interest that is in accordance with our understanding of the historical and contemporary reality of our society and our planet. We hope you will find our approach useful.

Cultural View hopes to be able to help make sense out of what is going on all around us: at the same time we want all of us to have a little fun, learn things that are of interest and generally speaking enjoy life a little more.

DISCLAIMER

Cultural View does not certify that the statements, assertions and positions of the sites we link to are accurate, valid or truthful. Our linking to these sites does not indicate our endorsement, and thus should not be viewed as such. It is not our intent to convey approval and/or recommendation of any of the services, products or positions of the various sites. Cultural View does not recommend that our visitors substitute the advice and / or counsel of those sites that offer such advice and / or counsel in lieu of professional advice, care or assistance. We have selected the various sites on the basis of fulfilling our goal of presenting a diversity of opinion and activity, not necessarily because we agree or disagree with a given site. Any action a visitor takes in accord with the views and posture of any of the various linked sites is solely the decision and responsibility of the visitor.