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hatrack

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Tue Mar-23-04 03:55 PM
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18. Cultures are durable institutions

They can survive many kinds of catastrophic events - war, invasion and occupation (as post WWII Germany and Japan showed); horrific repression and mass murder at the hands of fanatical, ignorant governments (Cambodia, Russia and the PRC come to mind); and even physical dispersion after war, invasion, repression AND mass murder (as shown by the survival of Jewish culture after the Disapora).

The one thing (aside from an Easter Island-ish ecological collapse) that a culture cannot withstand is the willing, loving embrace of ignorance.

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