Culture as tool?

I'm not comfortable with defining culture as an adaptive instrumental practice. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/opinion/ta-nehisi-coates-romneys-side-course-of-culture.html?_r=1&src=ISMR_AP_LI_LST_FB

emotional labour

interesting term

tobe considered in future

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_labor

Justin Clemens last week debunking internet libertarianism.

academic to look into

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Fryer

Aid book to read

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/22/abhijit-banerjee-poor-chances-minimal

wikipeetia

the mispelled wikipedia

for eg

[ http://www.wikipeetia.org/Deitch_Projects ]

The New Aesthetic

Discuss

http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2012/04/an-essay-on-the-new-aesthetic