Default Behaviours Become Culture

Culture is not declared.
It is absorbed.

Not from what is written,
but from what is witnessed.

Every ignored problem becomes permission.
Every tolerated shortcut becomes tradition.
Every silence becomes endorsement.

The way one task is done becomes the way all are done.
The way one moment is handled becomes the standard for many.

Culture forms in the shadows of repetition.
What repeats becomes what rules.
And what rules, rules quietly.

Each action writes a rule.
Each inaction sets a precedent.

Culture is not what you claim.
It is what you allow, and what you allow will multiply.

You don’t need a doctrine to shape culture.
You already have one.

It’s called your defaults.

Set them with intention,
or be ruled by what slips through.

Once it takes root, it resists removal.