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Where Culture Comes From
I got out of law because it was changing my brain.
– Andrew Yang
It was about 5:30 in the afternoon on a hot weekday sometime in September 1993 in the Kendall Square subway station in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Red Line platform thronged with hundreds of commuters like me. That was the moment I began thinking about deep structures. This was the phrase I had in my head for the idea that hundreds of individuals like me on that platform, all going home from work, or to yoga, or the gym, or on a date, or to an evening MBA class, each with their own personalities, preoccupations, dreams, frustrations, and anxieties – all – seemed to be able to abide by a common set of rules, a kind of unspoken logic for how to be on ...
