Neither of us are American. I'm not basing my values & beliefs on what my ancestors thought tho.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @PeterWallaceAU
-And everything around you, every privilege, every tool @ your disposal, is the social product of THIS SYSTEM.
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-And as Young said, in the end we are all 'Christians', whether we like it or not. (He's Jew). What did he mean?
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Replying to @BarnardsView
I'm sure he knows that. I don't claim to. Cultural influence is perpetual. Xtianity owes much to Platonism via Augustine.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
-Every generation has the duty to build on what they inherit. To reject and disavow your legacy is to debase to nothing. CANCER.
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Replying to @BarnardsView
And I think we do. By keeping the good stuff - education - and getting rid of the bad - child labour.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
-Yes we move forward, without ever rejecting where we came from. (Civilisation disintegrates when we break the system, hedonism)
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Replying to @BarnardsView
We reject things all the time. England became Christian by rejecting Paganism, Protestant by rejecting Catholicism. 1/2
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Replying to @HPluckrose @BarnardsView
Then it became secular by reducing church power and then largely non-religious by rejecting religious ideas. 2/2
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Replying to @HPluckrose
-Also Vikings, 'upgraded' to survive. Liberalism functions in competitive (post-cold-W) vacuum, leading to decay of our culture.
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You have conservative ideas in that there are ideas you wish to conserve. So do I. They might be different ones.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
-And in healthy evolution we share bulk of ideas we inherit & (to paraphrase JFK, 1962/9/12), we build on what made us 'strong'.
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