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I sympathize with the general desire to preserve a sense of cultural identity, but ultimately any attempt to keep a society static through time will slip throug
by allemagne 7y ago
I sympathize with the general desire to preserve a sense of cultural identity, but ultimately any attempt to keep a society static through time will slip through your fingers. No exceptions.
At some point, especially at the pace the modern world is changing, we need to ask ourselves how much better off we'd be if we stopped putting so much meaning into an idea that's ultimately just a nice momentary illusion at best.
- slang800 7y agoMaybe we need to care less about keeping up the pace at which the modern world is changing and more about maintaining a nice culture. I'd be willing to take a reduction in the GDP or a slow down in scientific advancement if it meant that the society I lived in was more coherent.
- mantas 7y agoIt's not about keeping the culture static. It's about organic evolution vs drastic changes brought in from outside, resulting in cultural clashes. The world is us. It's not a separate entity that we have to learn to work with. We don't have to adapt to XYZ. We can act in one way or another and the world will look accordingly.
- cloakandswagger 7y agoThe familiar nihilist refrain of globalism. "We live in a global world now, homogeneity is futile." And they wonder, after presenting their ideology as an unstoppable, all-consuming force of nature, why people take issue with it. As humans we have the agency to control our nations and their respective cultures and genetic makeups. This only becomes impossible when you adopt a Western value system that makes never-ending economic growth your only goal.