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Meta-culture by definition is all about human cultural context, and human cultural context in human systems theory is all about the many frames of reference that are possible in the anthropological comprehension of how human behavior and social relationships become structured and organized through time and across space.
Lewis Meta-culture is a major sub-system of the Lewis-Works framework that consists of several interrelated but distinct programs all tied to the production and reproduction of human symbolic and cultural forms and patterns at various levels and by various means of their articulation. The central concern of this subsystem is the elaboration of human systems theory, methodology and applications oriented towards the challenges of alternative human development. These challenges are construed holistically from a general systems based perspective and are treated as a part of a larger set of interrelated problems.
The key word is the symbolic "representation" of reality through alternative media, whether this be in terms of art, literary texts, or other forms of environmental design & architectural or engineering construction or alternative forms of electronic/digital media recording. The function of symbolism is to represent reality in different ways, and symbolic representation permits us to explore the hidden facets of meaning and possibility in the world. It thereby enriches our lives in a manner that we depend upon, not only for our enjoyment and the derivation of meaning from the world, but for our very adaptation and survival in the world.
Lewis Meta-culture attempts to integrate these programs and projects in a manner that will promote alternative frameworks for the development of human metaculture, especially forms of metaculture that can be considered to be relevant to alternative development and the problems that are the consequence of rapid modernization and the consequent acculturative and deculturative displacement of traditional cultural orientations, particularly when these occur upon a tribal level of structural organization.
It is our plan to systematically extend Lewis Metaculture and to enlarge its scope and focus of elaboration to embrace more subsystems, and at the same time, to increase the number of basic departments that fall within the Lewis Metaculture framework.
The links to the primary portals of this framework are found below:
