The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur. The art of free society consists first in the maintenance of the symbolic code.
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I don't know, this is a little too concrete. Could you put it more abstractly?
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I was thinking about the tomb of unknown soldier the other day. Inherently impossible to revise its meaning. Imagining what could end such cultural artifacts, or maybe these "eternal flames" burn forever, quaint anachronisms from long-forgotten times.
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China doesn't have symbols. they invest in (or steal) technology, do infrastructure and dev education at scale. also true-ish in India but with potent religious and cultural symbols. I'm not refuting just widening the perspective.
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