I just now noticed this. Why not contact me if you have questions, or at least point me to your post? I don’t automatically hear anytime someone mentions my name, after all.
Yes, the idea is that we value stuff about our culture that will be lost if it is replaced by other very different cultures. People in the Roman Empires who liked its cultures should have wanted to prevent its fall and replacement by the Christian culture.
Why talk about an outside view then? To get you to see that your culture is threatened from the outside.
That’s not an outside view though—we think losing our culture would be bad because we value things it preserves; us valuing those things is one and the same with us being part of that culture.
A broader argument is that this culture being so global means that its fall would likely be widely destructive.
I just now noticed this. Why not contact me if you have questions, or at least point me to your post? I don’t automatically hear anytime someone mentions my name, after all.
Yes, the idea is that we value stuff about our culture that will be lost if it is replaced by other very different cultures. People in the Roman Empires who liked its cultures should have wanted to prevent its fall and replacement by the Christian culture.
Why talk about an outside view then? To get you to see that your culture is threatened from the outside.
That’s not an outside view though—we think losing our culture would be bad because we value things it preserves; us valuing those things is one and the same with us being part of that culture.
A broader argument is that this culture being so global means that its fall would likely be widely destructive.