I'd say: Western civ is the culture of debate, began in 5th c BC Athens, elaborated in parliamentary procedure, enshrined in 1st Amendment.
Worth a few minutes reading if you want to understand what happened to Western Civilization.https://twitter.com/jmrphy/status/858535885641527296 …
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(The consequent market (Olympics?) of ideas (and freedom of thought) comes first, all that discussed at SSC blog follows.)
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It was good to reread it, but Islam in the west partially refutes it in 2 ways: 1) It doesn't assimilate to universal culture; 2) Its anger
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argues against Scott's mooted dichotomy between universal & western culture. Who has that much hate for the universal?
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I spent some time on it, but I'm kinda over coca-cola and this just lost my interest. Kinda seems to stop at meritocratic value unfoldment.
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