Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.
The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.
What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.
It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.