Personally, I tend to doubt that human cultures have any kind of reasonable grip on the nature, structure, character, or possible meanings of reality. So I treat their produce as toys. And I like to go explore what they are toys of, directly, in person. Generally, I find that the toys have discarded nearly all of what they are toys of, and left only the safe and predictable part. That would be like the bones of your girlfriend. Me? I like the girl.