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December 16, 2004
When I saw this Leunig cartoon cultural conservatism popped into my mind.
Leunig
Cultural conservatism's theme is the decline and twilight of Australian culture, as evidenced in the deterioration of literacy, the pervasiveness of anti-intellectualism, political correctness, postmodernism in the academy, and the mind-numbing lack of thinking.
How do we preserve culture?
Life would be better if everyone just studied the classics. Why the classics? The classics are far superior to all other texts.
My reaction? I remember an epigraph from Bob Dylan's 'All Along the Watchtower': "There must be someway out of here."
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