My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
I think the more we embrace the culture of life and respect life, the better that we do.
Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.
It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.
I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.
Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.
The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
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