A provocative title for a reasonable thesis:https://www.econlib.org/you-have-no-right-to-your-culture/ …
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"Culture" is a fuzzy ordinary-language word. You can stretch the meaning to include political structures, but what people normally have in mind are lifestyles, family structure, religion, diet, entertainment, etc. And that's how I'm using the word.
Whatever 'culture' means, can we agree that cultures willing to protect themselves will usually last longer than those that aren't willing to protect themselves? The game theoretic outcome seems obvious.
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Disagree. Do you think that economic systems that "protect themselves" from foreign competition "usually last longer than those that aren't willing to protect themselves"? Doesn't look that way to me.
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Good point. ‘Protect themselves’ could mean 2 things. ‘Protect themselves’, in the evolutionary sense is anything that is fit and self preserving. But, counterintuitively, the common place def of ‘protect themselves’ may include cultures with are not evolutionarily successful.
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Depends on the meaning
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I'm not sure. To some degree, expansionist desire can prolong a culture (in fairly cruel ways), or a tendency to universalize cultural values. But overly closed cultures usually don't last long. Most long-lasting cultures value curiosity, exploration and are interested in others.
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Cultures that reproduce themselves through hegemony last longest...
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My thoughts exactly.
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Are you talking about universal culture?
@primalpoly was talking about non-universal cultures, like Tibetan culture in Scott's example. "Optimizing" cultures to become more universal is just ceding ground to universal culture. - 8 more replies
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If something is a "right", it implies you can protect it by force. Do you agree people should protect their culture by force, if necessary? I don't think so.
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You mention the constitution. There are MANY good reasons to protect the constitution other than "people have a right to their culture!"
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