Culture is synonomous with World System

Culture
"On its website, the American Psychological Association brags, 'Since 1975, the American Psychological Association has called on psychologists to take the lead in removing the stigma of mental illness that has long been associated with lesbian, gay, and bisexual orientations.' It once considered such behavior otherwise and while even most conservatives no longer regard homosexuality as a mental illness, many still regard it as sinful. That theological diagnosis, too, has been discarded in our increasingly secular and anomalous society where everything is to be tolerated except those people who assert that, according to a standard higher than opinion polls, some things remain intolerable. ... What we tolerate and promote we get more of and what we discourage and reject we get less of. ... The message at Penn State was that we live in a culture that forbids almost nothing. ... In the last verse of the Old Testament's book of Judges, there is this: 'In those days Israel had no king; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.' That could have been the motto at Penn State. Increasingly, it appears to describe contemporary America as well." --columnist Cal Thomas