May 30, 2006
Cultural power - like everything else these days, a hopeful concept if we can make it so.
Hopeful because it doesn't require economic or political or military power, and is in fact greater than any of these. But open, "like everything else these days," to economic and political and military manipulation.
From time to time I'll be posting thoughts on subjects such as --
John Beck
Cultural power - like everything else these days, a hopeful concept if we can make it so.
Hopeful because it doesn't require economic or political or military power, and is in fact greater than any of these. But open, "like everything else these days," to economic and political and military manipulation.
From time to time I'll be posting thoughts on subjects such as --
- What the high culture of Europe may have meant, in the long view.
- Why "the left," which for a long time was way ahead in the "culture wars," may have to create some sincere new entry points in religion.
- Remembering Buckminster Fuller's challenge to cooperation, to systems thinking, to synergizing, to realizing that there is actually plenty.
John Beck
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