Yet within this outward turmoil, more subtle shifts are occurring, such as the transition of the "modern" mind from the industrial-globalisation model toward a life-sustaining, ecological-integral world-view.
Its economy is increasingly integral to world trade, and benefits enormously from it.
A "good" formula creates an integral fantasy world, one that is both entirely like and entirely unlike the culture that produced it.
Brennan, who herself regards a meme as "a unit of culture defined by the people using it that gets mutated along the way" thinks this shift away from specificity is a symptom of memes becoming so integral to world culture that the technical framework around them is abandoned.
God is integral to my world view, making me see the world in HD.
And the Shed, "a room that embraces your sound," is integral to that world.
The cynical answers are that people in the West are afraid of catching sars, and that East Asia, unlike Africa, is integral to the world economy.
And speaking of nuance, I return, being a classy Ghanaian, to Google: the phrase, "father of modern African literature" it appears, is taken from a Nadine Gordimer quote when Achebe won the international Booker in 2007; what she said was: "Chinua Achebe's early work made him the father of modern African literature as an integral part of world literature".
Yet never has this hamlet's famed glassworks been so integral to the world economy.
Since cybernetics are integral to the world of Ghost in the Shell, their task was to imagine how people would use implant-based computers.
That's why I pay an additional amount per month to my cable bill: to watch programming that expects me to be smarter than the mass audience, requires me to think, and basks in the knowledge that I'll suffer through some obscene acts because it's integral to the world of the characters that I'm watching.
