leitkultur / defining culture?

we don’t need any defining culture. we urgently need culture, though. a cultura diffusa - collective narrations and remembrances containing light and shadow of history - of stories and history: concerning personal and familial experiences and pasts. this is meant to be an individual act and undergo. any country’s culture emerges from the narrations of all inhabitants, not in public discourse. this culture is ready to host roots and develop power of values and virtues, which we are to save - beyond paper statements and laws. this process cannot be enacted politically. it can be supported and appreciated officially, but it will not come into existence officially. we can just encourage each other to enter this process. create space where we are allowed to remember and sense in an unprepossessed way. space for tears, anger, grievance, sound, laughter - we only can create this culture on ourselves. we cannot demand it from anybody.