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The shared cultural reality the church creates for Europeans through Catholic doctrine, local institutions, and priestly mediation.
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meta-reality
The shared cultural reality the church creates for Europeans through Catholic doctrine, local institutions, and priestly mediation.
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Culture as the higher-order reality that shapes how competing institutions behave.
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The underlying cultural understanding from which other understandings of the world derive.
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The Catholic Church functions as a freelance imperial bureaucracy of Europe because it creates culture or meta-reality where no effective emperor exists.
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Culture is meta-reality: the understanding of the world from which all other understandings derive.
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"...imperial bureaucracy where it's trying to create the culture or the meta -reality of all Europeans."
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"They are competing institutions, the bureaucracy, by controlling this meta -reality that's culture, it controls the way that these other institutions behave. Okay? So,..."
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"...the semester. What I will argue is that culture is the meta -reality. Meta -reality. So what's meta -reality? Meta -reality is the understanding..."
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