We swim in culture like a fish swims in water; and hence, from the very beginning, culture ingresses into us. Like the flamingo who is pink because she eats brine shrimp who in trun feed on algae which contain carotanoids that turn their feathers pink, we metabolize culture and it colors our subjectivity. This is the concept of ingress. When a group of people share the same cultural patterns, like a group of flamingoes sharing the same diet, a collective pattern emerges. This pattern then is transmitted generationally, with some mutations, constituting the “water” that the new generation will swim in, and which will ingress into their subjectivity.
– https://bonnittaroy.substack.com/p/origins-of-culture-collective-consciousness