The reason I dislike talking about the culture rather than the memes is that it presents the culture as atomic, rather than the memes. If we know the culture has sex-positive and sex-negative elements, why not talk about those elements directly? They’re what’s interesting, and differentiating between them is valuable. The culture is what you get when you blend them together, and if we’re trying to analyze them then distinctness is valuable.
The reason I dislike talking about the culture rather than the memes is that it presents the culture as atomic, rather than the memes. If we know the culture has sex-positive and sex-negative elements, why not talk about those elements directly? They’re what’s interesting, and differentiating between them is valuable. The culture is what you get when you blend them together, and if we’re trying to analyze them then distinctness is valuable.