My guess is that if you’re worried about this, the best intervention is to ensure that the cultures are recorded so that people can bring them back later if they want to. I think these people should consider recording more videos of themselves, potentially just in private for the purpose of informing interested people later.
You can’t bring a culture back. It would just be cosplay and reenactment. Recording what is is worthwhile only so that later people can learn what was. Who takes the ancient Greek gods seriously today? Who speaks Egyptian? How many crofters are there still? The young vote with their feet and the old die off. “How Ya Gonna Keep ’em Down on the Farm, After They’ve Seen Paree?”
My guess is that if you’re worried about this, the best intervention is to ensure that the cultures are recorded so that people can bring them back later if they want to. I think these people should consider recording more videos of themselves, potentially just in private for the purpose of informing interested people later.
You can’t bring a culture back. It would just be cosplay and reenactment. Recording what is is worthwhile only so that later people can learn what was. Who takes the ancient Greek gods seriously today? Who speaks Egyptian? How many crofters are there still? The young vote with their feet and the old die off. “How Ya Gonna Keep ’em Down on the Farm, After They’ve Seen Paree?”
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