Akira The Don, John Vervaeke - Steal The Culture lyrics

Because I’m talking with the
Person who gave us
The A and B Game, Blue Church,  Jordan Hall
And part of that is this idea which is
A religion that's not a religion
And coming – trying to come up
With a post religious faith
Because here is the idea
This is probably in some ways
My most radical idea
I wanna do what like Augustine did
As the Roman Empire is falling
He laid the foundation
He laid the cultural cognitive
Grammar for an entirely
Different culture and they stole
The culture bottom-up
He laid the cultural cognitive
Grammar for an entirely
Different culture and they stole
The culture bottom-up



I wanna help steal the culture – away
Steal it away steal it away
I wanna help steal the culture – away
Steal it away steal it away
And do everything I can (And I can)
Do everything I can (And I can)
I wanna help steal the culture – away
Steal it away steal it away

From the imperial system
The imperial system at some point
Then clamped down again
But nevertheless, we shifted
We shifted out of antiquity
We shifted to a different world
So I want to try and do that
I want to try and create
That systems of meaning, the religion
That is not a religion, the
Ecologies of practices, the communities
The networks of communities
All of this, it's already happening
We really empower it both in
Terms of it's grammar
Give it the best scientific
Tools for engineering
The practices and the ecology of practices
I basically wanna steal the culture

I wanna help steal the culture – away
Steal it away steal it away
I wanna help steal the culture – away
Steal it away steal it away
And do everything I can (And I can)
Do everything I can (And I can)
I wanna help steal the culture – away
Steal it away steal it away

From the people who have been abusing us
For such a very long time
And I usually don't speak politically
'cause I think the political
Framing is often a deep
Misrepresentation of the issue
At least the way in which political
Discourse has been sort of
Been ossified, sort of been ossified
In ways make choice
No longer really relevant
And you know Christianity stole the
Culture away from the elites, it's time
Now new elites form
They always will but the culture changed
And it changed in an
Important way and that's what I'm
Trying to do right now
That's what I see myself doing with
A lot of these other people
That's what I'm trying to do right now
That's what I see myself doing with
A lot of these other people

I wanna help steal the culture – away
Steal it away steal it away
I wanna help steal the culture – away
Steal it away steal it away
And do everything I can (And I can)
Do everything I can (And I can)
I wanna help steal the culture – away
Steal it away steal it away

Steal it away, steal it away, steal it away
Now
Steal it away, steal it away, steal it away
Hey
Steal it away, steal it away, steal it away
Now
Steal it away, steal it away, steal it away
Hey
Steal it away, steal it away, steal it away
Now
Steal it away, steal it away, steal it away
Hey
Steal it away, steal it away, steal it away
Now
Steal it away, steal it away, steal it away
Hey

And the whole point about the
Metaphor is we can't
We can't win by playing the game
(Their game) that's right
My way of trying to understand what it is to
Not play their game and to shift over to
Into a totally different game
To shift the culture
It's to steal the culture
The only thing I could
Get from history that's
Been able to do that are religion
But for reasons I've articulated
I don't want
And it’s not personally, I mean in terms of
The functionality, I don't think
The standard model
The axial age model of religion is going
To do what we need in
Order to steal the culture as deeply
As we need to steal it