Sunday, April 16, 2017

The Easter Solution to Cultural Identity


Two weeks, or so, of studying a whole bunch of distinguishable and competing samples that I am labeling the AltRight (America) or New Right (Europe) leads me to believe that the central entity being fought over is culture.

Its adherents (the bulk of whom are disturbingly youthful in their twenties and thirties) believe that modernity, multiculturalism, globalism, technology, liberalism is putting their traditional, European (white) culture that is the foundation of their ultimate sense of meaning, worth, and value under siege. 

They are fighting a battle that in a very real sense is life and death for them.

I empathize with them but, on the strength of such Christian belief and study that I possess, the answer is to be found in Easter, not in some fantasy regression to an ideal traditional society that never existed (unless they think medieval serfdom is an enviable lifestyle compared to their own. :-) )
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"The Cambridge English Dictionary states that culture is "the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a particular time."[3] Terror management theory posits that culture is a series of activities and worldviews that provide humans with the basis for perceiving themselves as "person[s] of worth within the world of meaning"—raising themselves above the merely physical aspects of existence, in order to deny the animal insignificance and death that Homo sapiens became aware of when they acquired a larger brain.[4][5]"

Culture (Wikipedia)

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