Tell It Like It Is

Thursday 11 November 2010

Cultural superiority - if your culture ain't superior, why do you subscribe?

Racial superiority vs cultural superiority : there's a vast difference.

Culture can be changed.

Race cannot.

When it comes to cultural superiority, I do happen to hold that a culture which lets widows live is superior to one which burns its widows alive on their husbands' funeral pyres.

I do hold that a culture which celebrates and protects the unborn is superior to one which kills them at a whim.

I do hold that a culture which enjoys the occasional drink is superior to one which celebrates inebriation.

I hold this and much the more.

Your culture cannot be equal to all other cultures, unless you think stupidity is equal to wisdom, ignorance is equal to enquiry, violence is equal to forgiveness, and indolence is equal to diligence.

And if your culture is not equal to all others, then it must be superior and/or inferior to some.

And thus is born the quest for perfection of culture, and a rejection of the blind faith of our age that all cultures are to be equally revered.