If you walked into an Amazonian jungle and spent enough time, you’d notice that in every moment a world war is happening.

The bugs try to eat the trees and each other, the fish jump out of the water to get the flies, the snakes catch the fish mid-flight.

Deadly vines are climbing and killing old trees, trees compete and fight over sunlight, a tribe of warrior apes in the hunt for another.
It’s a constant battleground.
So is the war of cultures.
 

As you grew up, you felt the culture of your generation replace and trample your parents’ one—new slang, new words, new worldviews.
You couldn't stand the absurdity of their old TV shows, their fading music and radio instruments, and outdated political causes.

The culture within yourself passes seasons and lets new understandings, new discoveries conspire and replace the former ones like old leaves eaten by unseen bacteria in a rutting ground.
 

Maybe you study history and imagine the collapse of Rome, the end of enchanted Greece, and the fall of the mighty Persian Empire. Emperors stabbed in the back, revolutions shouted in French, and cop cars being flamed can be imagined from dated action movies.
 

War happened as culture climbed on top of each other, societies replaced, and ancient traditions forgotten, melted into pages of history.
 

The next culture of that time was evolving in the cooking pot, ready to overflow and spill around the room as a tasty meal for the seeker.
 

The evolution of cultures left behind ancient pyramids of control, structures of old and new, towering like the Tower of Babylon until today.

These old structures of culture have hierarchies and are kept for a purpose by the still believers.

Just like in GOT—
 

• An old religious culture worshiping death.

• A bank culture mechanized to capitalize all gain possible at the price of the planet itself.

• Colonialist activist culture set to rebel against old imagined and projected authority figures.

• Modern culture dressed in mall black, grinding for another dolla bill.
  Putting kids in the school system to imprison them against their sensitivity.

• Numb culture

• Drug culture

• Music culture

• New Age culture looking good in new, wide, blowing-in-the-wind colorful garments.

All fighting with each other, for territory, for attention, for a piece of your heart.
Battling for a higher place in the hierarchy of culture, getting rid of the last one, and forgetting about it, as it’s chewed by the cycle of life.. 
 

If you saw that fight—the war of culture—clear as day, you can now walk in the jungle.
You can pass without getting beaten,
You won’t get lost,
You can hear the sounds, distinguish the callings, and find your way to what you need.

Once you let the screams of the jungle settle, they become like music—simple, natural, as much a part of the world as anything else.
And then, you can find your way back home—to Next Culture.