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It seems obvious to me that culture has complex patterns both whose underlying deep themes and surface manifestations can contradict, and that it is at the ultimate level a non-self-consistent jumble of these themes - which nonetheless span generations and form a recognizable whole. If that isn't usefully called a culture, why not?
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.