Nature loves courage. Please save me from contemporary postChristian Western selfcomplacent sinfulness. Impression and Fashion: People live, earn, prevail not just for mere survival but to live and compete in the society and bring advancements to their lives. What will it mean for us to be like the angels in Luke 20? thanks for the stirring comment. i dig your insight. Jordan Bates is no one. youre most welcome, alex. More online interaction rather face to face 5. If it were, I should not feel lost as I know that I should if I did not have a piedterre in London. . Since as early as I first became conscious of my native Western environment, Western technology has been inventing new and ever more complicated machines. Furthermore, WEIRD and non-WEIRD people define themselves in totally different ways. This education served me as a magic carpet on which I wafted myself from the 20th century of the Christian era to the third century B.C., and from the North Atlantic to the Eastern Mediterranean. This is, in itself, a deplorable impoverishment of the material side of human culture, and it brings spiritual standardization with it, which is still worse. It is a sign that the West is culturally dead. Dont believe the hype! My own view is that WEIRDness is a comparatively recent phenomenon not a medieval one. I dont deny that people are shitheads at times. This allowed a delicate balance of individual enterprise and creativity, whilst at the same time asserting the churchs prosocial dutyto be fighting for the good of all in terms of social projects such as the abolition of slavery, child-labour and many other welfare improvements. New foods, new music, new faiths and so on are all enriching Western culture. Only in the 20th and 21st centuries have Western societies abandoned their Christian foundations and become what you might call hyper-individualistic one result of which is our current culture war. Western culture has affected almost every dimension of society. Then instagram, tumblr, facebook and the selfie stick comes along and we reach peak narcissism. You ought to specialize. I said nothing, but I was instantaneously certain that I was not going to follow this advice; and, in fact, I have consistently done the opposite throughout the 60 years that have passed since then. Global competition And many more Negative 1. On Monday, Republican Congressman Steve King of Ohio had the temerity to suggest in a tweet that, "Western civilization [is] superior civilization." Wilders understands that culture and. Have you seen a tweet you disagree with? If everyone was, the terms artist and athlete would lose their meaning and simply be subsumed into our human identitythe identity we form by contrasting our physiology with that of other animals. Henrich presents a wall of empirical evidence which is hard to argue against, but there are omissions. However under liberalism (and its subset Third Wave Feminism), women have more agency than a man. 1. One example is unpaid parking tickets given to foreign diplomats in New York. Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; The destruction of kin-based social structures, Henrich suggests, led instead to other forms of communal activityvoluntary associations, trade and craft guilds and, of course, church congregations. The debate over the medieval Churchs actual control of marriage would be a good place to start as everything in the book follows from this assumption. Well over 20 big celebrities were cancelled in 2020. Thats because not long ago with just a quick phone call Bob realized that he could have something better in his life.. The gospels arent mentioned much in the article. An American friend did give me an electric razor. Westernization has been a pervasive and accelerating influence across the world in the last few centuries, with some thinkers assuming westernization to be the equivalent of modernization. Unfortunately, this group-based social dynamic is a slippery slope to narcissism and animosity. You are only loitering and sluggard. I appologise for my coy conceit, what you wrote actually resonated deeply with me but I know that I am a fickle searcher. This article came into my life at a good moment- I am working hard to overcome depression, putting everything into my recovery and getting better every day. If I had happened to be born in 1889 in China instead of England, no doubt I should be annoyed today with the China of Pu Yi and Chiang Kaishek and Chou Enlai. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. With that #1 and #2 could become as close to reality as humanly possible. If you cold approach someone on the street you will get a rude response or be accused of sexual harassment. Ill leave you with this passagewhich echoes my introductory sentiments and distills the crux of this piecefrom the philosopher Robert Anton Wilson: Its important to abolish the unconscious dogmatism that makes people think their way of looking at reality is the only sane way of viewing the world. This is a limitation on my human freedom that I resent. What can be said about that? This can lead to a lot of conflict and competition, rather than cooperation and understanding. Freed from obligations to clan or kin and yet restrained by a sense that God was watching your actions, Henrich argues that people became more prosocialacting in ways that benefit society as a whole rather than just your familythe opposite of antisocial. I myself, besides being human, happen to be a historian, and a historian's special form of human rebellion is to try to shake himself free of his own parochial blood and soil (to use Hitler's hateful but expressive words). I admit that I dont understand this whole life thing, and from that admission emerges humility, wonder, curiosity, and an openness to novelty and possibility. From the earliest point, the Catholic church systematically outlawed both polygamy, and marriage to close relatives including first and second cousins, brother- or sister-in-laws as well as uncles or aunts. Even at local authority, geographical level there can be little bridging between communities, even when there is a common cause. 1. We are neither purely good nor purely bad. Kahlil Gibran knew this when he wrote: You are good in countless ways, and you understands How Things Are in some kind of absolute way. Sex is a still more awkward feature of our biological inheritance than death, and our 19thcentury Western society handled sex with relative success. Instead, Henrich places the Christian church as the prime influence in creating our western societyfirstly in the Roman Catholic abolition of cousin marriage and secondly in the individualism of the Protestant Reformation. I had the good fortune to be educated in Greek and Latin. Moreover, I want them, in their turn, to have grandchildren who will have grandchildren. This makes for a very toxic environment, and creates a lot of fear for famous people on twitter. Another reason why Western culture might be seen as bad is because it can be quite individualistic. I run my own startups, and I do web development, app development, editing writing, songwriting, music producing as a freelancer, so I dont need to worry about poverty. One of its intellectual blemishes is its insistence on splitting up the universe into smaller and smaller splinters. The other day, I had a threehour mule ride from an airstrip to the rockcut churches at Lalibela in Ethiopia. It is not real. Sofia Lyon & Nathan. Free. What Henrich is saying that this cultural software is not just accidental or irrelevant but intrinsic to the success of the modern world. 2.3 Cancel Culture Results In The Marginalization Of Already Marginalized Groups. i appreciate the constructive criticism, though. DISCLAIMERThis article is for informational purposes only. calling everyone you dont like a racist nazi. We invent endless differences in an ongoing game of human drama when, at root, we are all members of the same species living on a tiny rock in a mysterious void. But the notion that the culture in question is White, is actually a very bad idea. It's important to note that the IARC categorisation measures hazard, not risk; in other words, it says how confident researchers are that something can cause cancer, not how likely it is to do so or how much cancer it causes. The STANDS4 Network . If you are educated, work on your talents, go out meeting new people to gain life experience, have your own place, your own car, work on your personality; you are increasing the chances that the opposite sex will find you attractive, so you are increasing your chances of reproducing, thus living for evolutionary biology. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. The Western diet is characterised by a high intake of ultra-processed foods, refined carbohydrates, saturated fats and free sugar. Before scholars compare the relative value of cultures, Castillo concluded, we need to fix the historical record so that it includes all cultural perspectives. People follow without question. Bob is a prime (if a bit extreme) example of an archetype that is widely propagated by advertisers, self-help gurus, and the hokey, think-positive people who you unfollowed on Facebook for incessantly posting Just Be Happy Now memes. Why is mission more fruitful with those who are on the edge of things rather than those who have strong family networks? Every other news story is a sexual assault or homicide or bombing or school shooting or shocking accident. You may have recognized the above ad-copy as that of Enzyte, Natural Male Enhancement, and were unwittingly prompted to imagine Bob, that disturbingly perky boner-boosting poster boy and his eerily exaggerated inhuman perma-smile. When i was researching my local Suffolk villages at the outbreak of World War One, many lads had never left their villages before they were called up. Adjunct Professor, Fuller Theological Seminary; Associate Minister, St Nic's, Nottingham; Managing Editor, Grove Books; member of General Synod. He calls it the churchs Marriage and Family Program (MFP) and he plots the march of this program across spheres of influence and the resulting effect on cousin marriage and polygamy. The society has turned people into empty shells looking for happiness in buzzwords. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. 2 Reasons Why Cancel Culture Is Bad for Society. And when I was in poverty, even though the money sucked, I struggled and its not fun, I was protected by benefits in a socialist country, so my poverty is not the same poverty people experience in asia and africa. What people dont realise, is that you dont need to have lots of money and popularity to be successful. I try to explore cross-cultural issues in my blog Out of Many, One People (accessed at [emailprotected]). It has been a serious threat and is establishing a strong base in many people slowly wiping out their culture. This lies safely tucked away in a drawer, and whenever I unearth it, it alarms me. Also I have my side hustle going on as well. There are many reasons for this; one is that it has a unique culture that combines both Eastern and Western cultural traits. thanks, Dan. mass suicide by engaging in a third world war that, this time, would be fought with atomic weapons. When they have an opinion and they are not an activist or in a leadership position, it goes all over the media anyway. Well if you hadnt noticed, the west is not a friendly place. If youre from an eastern country, I suppose youll love it or be fascinated with it, because its so different. I could see the world as I pleased. Many are instinctive, some are learned. But I digress. "Western culture" is a vague term often seen in academic environments. So I've been living abroad for the past year and a half and one thing you notice doing that is how dominant western culture is. Convincing people to do and believe what you want them to do and believe is supremely dependent on presenting yourself or your organization as wise, enlightened, certain. Microbiome, Gut Health And Allergies, And Why Theres No Gut Allergy, 1 in 5 Brits gets 80% of their daily calories from ultra-processed foods, The average American gets around 50% of their daily calories from ultra-processed goods. The bad thing about consumerism, is that people have shallow experiences, and value spending money and holidays, more than they do the relationships they have with people and the ways they can become better more worldly people. No they do not. However, it is characteristic of our human nature that we rebel against our human limitations and try to transcend them. Modernisation 2. TOP TIP: The national U.K. guidelines suggest that those eating over 90 grams of processed or red meat daily should cut it to 70 or less. A classicist historian Brent Shaw has analysed the surviving records and he finds that of the 33 aristocratic marriages he has studied not one was a cousin marriage. Life has an order, an obvious trajectory. That video could never be aired on TV now. In numerous ways, society implicitly communicates to us that the world is a harsh and frightening place. Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.. Anyone can read what you share. Were taught to look out at the world and see tragedies rather than possibilities. This situation and other sources of fear become further reasons to take the cautious life-path that is advertised to us in schools and acted out all around us by the majority of citizens. The problem with a cultural dichotomy of good and bad is that it suggests to us that any one ephemeral mistake could have lifelong consequences, could prove that we are just downright bad people. Diet culture can be defined as "a society that focuses on and values weight, shape, and size over health and well-being.". Clinical studies consistently show that the more closely someone follows the Western diet, the higher their risk for non-communicable diseases such as colon cancer, heart disease, obesity and type-2 diabetes. A human being has roots, like a tree, and these roots tether him though, unlike a tree's roots, they are emotional and intellectual roots. When bacteria ferment dietary fibre, they belch out anti-inflammatory compounds such as butyrate- a short-chain fatty acid that nourishes cells in the gut lining and protects against conditions such as ulcerative colitis. The bond between men and women is getting worse. Rich- well hardly for the majority until the 1960s and the wealth before then came from a subservient working class, slavery plantations and the destruction of economies such as India. Perhaps this is what makes the parable of the Good Samaritan so radicalbecause in the kin-based society of first century Israel, to reach out and help a member of a rival clan would have been extraordinary. However, the main basis of his thought is based upon the presumption that all accept that individualism is somehow wrong. Year after year, the system has already determined whats best for us: first grade to second grade to third grade, et al. Also in collectivist cultures, hospitality is a big thing, and its common to be invited into strangers houses, and nobody ever gets robbed or raped when this happens, as its a tight knit community and youll your reputation will be forever torn to shreds if you do. The contemporary West is callous toward the aged. Modern healthcare in the western world is still based on allopathy, or the "battlefield" treatment of ailments with drugs. It has split up the human race into a host of sovereign independent national states.It has split up knowledge and understanding into a host of separate watertight disciplines. I dislike nationalism and I dislike specialization, and both are characteristically Western aberrations. Why is Western culture better than Indian culture? Feminists are just being elitists looking at the men in the suits in the offices in the leadership roles, or in STEM, and theyre making their conclusions based on that. There are of course lots of nuances and cautions about the data and how to interpret it, but yes there does seem to be a correlation between those who are kin/family focussed and those who are more individualistic, yet more likely to join associations, do volunteering and join and actively take part in church. I see popular people on twitter all the time who make every effort to reply to their fans. Be with those feelings; see what they might mean to you and know that theyre temporary. The Western diet is characterised by a high intake of ultra-processed foods, refined carbohydrates, saturated fats and free sugar. WHEN I say baldly that I dislike contemporary Western civilization, I am, of course, saying this partly to tease my fellow Westerners. We all remember hearing things like Be a good girl, Wilma. or Dont be a naughty little boy, Sigmund. From a young age, we were introduced to a set of ethical rulesrules which determined whether a person was good or bad. Most of the stories we grew up with, whether in the form of movies or books, contained morally unambiguous charactersthat is, heroes and villains, the good guys and the bad guys.. 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