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The Cultural Excavator – How Cevin Soling Unearths the Hidden Mechanics of Society

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  Cevin Soling  is a cultural excavator working in mediums instead of tools. His films dig into institutional foundations. His essays dig into cognitive inheritance. His music digs into emotional autonomy. His satire digs into social absurdity. His production work digs into creative authenticity. Soling does not simply ask what is broken—he asks how the breaking became invisible, normalized, inherited, rewarded, and internalized. Excavating the Invisible Mechanics Cevin Soling  studies culture by examining its machinery rather than its slogans. In Soling’s view, institutions function like black boxes—people see the input (school, media, politics, rules, norms, tradition) and the output (belief, behavior, identity, obedience, emotional alignment), but rarely see the internal mechanism producing the result. Soling decodes the mechanism by examining: Incentives → What behavior is rewarded? Scaling logic → What does the system optimize for? Identity scripts → What role doe...