Steal the Culture

Because I'm talking with the person who gave us the A and B Game
Blue Church, Jordan Hall
And part of that is this idea
Which is a religion that's not a religion
And coming – trying to come up with a post religious faith
Because here is the idea
This is probably in some ways my most radical idea
I wanna do what like Augustine did
As the Roman Empire is falling
He laid the foundation
He laid the cultural cognitive grammar
For an entirely different culture
And they stole the culture bottom-up
He laid the cultural cognitive grammar
For an entirely different culture
And they stole the culture bottom-up

I wanna help steal the culture – away
Steal it away
Steal it away
I wanna help steal the culture – away
Steal it away
Steal it away
And do everything I can
(And I can)
Do everything I can
(And I can)
I wanna help steal the culture – away
Steal it away
Steal it away

From the imperial system
The imperial system at some point
Then clamped down again
But nevertheless, we shifted
We shifted out of antiquity
We shifted to a different world
So I want to try and do that
I want to try and create that systems of meaning
The religion that is not a religion
The ecologies of practices
The communities, the networks of communities
All of this, it's already happening
We really empower it both in terms of its grammar
Give it the best scientific tools for engineering the practices
And the ecology of practices
I basically wanna steal the culture

I wanna help steal the culture – away
Steal it away
Steal it away
I wanna help steal the culture – away
Steal it away
Steal it away
And do everything I can
(And I can)
Do everything I can
(And I can)
I wanna help steal the culture – away
Steal it away
Steal it away

From the people who have been abusing us
For such a very long time
And I usually don't speak politically
'Cause I think the political framing
Is often a deep misrepresentation of the issue
At least the way in which political discourse
Has been sort of been ossified
Sort of been ossified in ways make choice
No longer really relevant
And you know Christianity stole the culture away
From the elites
It's time
Now new elites form, they always will but the culture changed
And it changed in an important way
And that's what I'm trying to do right now
That's what I see myself doing with a lot of these other people
That's what I'm trying to do right now
That's what I see myself doing with a lot of these other people

I wanna help steal the culture – away
Steal it away
Steal it away
I wanna help steal the culture – away
Steal it away
Steal it away
And do everything I can
(And I can)
Do everything I can
(And I can)
I wanna help steal the culture – away
Steal it away
Steal it away

Steal it away, steal it away, steal it away
Now
Steal it away, steal it away, steal it away
Hey
Steal it away, steal it away, steal it away
Now
Steal it away, steal it away, steal it away
Hey
Steal it away, steal it away, steal it away
Now
Steal it away, steal it away, steal it away
Hey
Steal it away, steal it away, steal it away
Now
Steal it away, steal it away, steal it away
Hey

And the whole point about the metaphor is we can't
We can't win by playing the game
That's right
My way of trying to understand
What it is to not play their game
And to shift over to, into a totally different game
To shift the culture, it's to steal the culture
The only thing I could get from history
That's been able to do that are religion
But for reasons I've articulated, I don't want
And it's not personally, I mean in terms of the functionality
I don't think the standard model
The axial age model of religion is going to do what we need
In order to steal the culture
As deeply as we need to steal it