"It continues to be the simple acts of speaking out about our truths and challenging the myths" that exposes the cultural lies that harm us, she said.
The cultural lies in celebrating real food; raising our children in homes that don't program them for fast-produced, eaten-on-the-run, high-calorie, low-nutrition junk; giving them the gift of appreciating the pleasures of nourishing one another and enjoying that nourishment together.
And then there are the cultural lies that parents tell children.
The popular message says that great sex is a function of technique and frequency, but this is a cultural lie.
He says boys in this country, especially athletes, grow up believing that manhood in America is defined by three fundamental cultural lies: 1) How athletic you are; 2) How much money you make, and 3) How many sexual conquests you have.
The foundations of cultural studies lay in an insistence on taking popular, low-status cultural forms seriously and tracing the interweaving threads of culture, power and politics.
Berlin's Unter den Linden, a primary thoroughfare and ensemble of historic architecture and nationally significant cultural institutions, lay in ruins at the close of the Second World War.
At the heart of this huge annual extravaganza, a unique blend of social, sporting and cultural activity, lay that most Utopian of ideals, comradeship among railwaymen of all countries.
Their economic interests and cultural ambitions lay so far from those of the metropolitan elite that, according to the prime minister Lord Derby, the 1867 reform bill, extending the franchise to working-class men, would be nothing less than "a leap in the dark".
As a result, we are more prone to do things like aim nuclear weapons at each other, inflate the meaning of cultural differences, lay waste to the land, poison and deplete the oceans, fill the sky with carbon, and generally make poor judgments that cause needless trouble.
