Changing the blog layout now...
For those of you who happen accross my blog these days, you're in for something different from my Peace Corps doings. I'm back state-side in the UP, Michigan, finishing my master in volcanology. These days you'll hear about my doings post-PC, and occassionally some random thoughts I just need to get out there. Politics, conservation, persepctive, people who bug me.... whatever. I hope it doesn't fatigue you too much.
best.
-adam-
Saturday, July 09, 2005
New Thought
So, I've got this new thought going through my head.
'The problem with tradition is that it doesn't change.'
nice spur. as a side-step to that thought, i've come to realize that Culture is/(should be defined in part as) that which is fruitful and good to a people/place, etc. it's easy to not judge another's Culture, in effort to feign ethnocentrism - but destructive elements of a culture are indeed not what should survive to define the culture itself... there is culture, and there is also humanity.
don't turn a blind eye to that which destroys the good - advocate latter.
nice spur. as a side-step to that thought, i've come to realize that Culture is/(should be defined in part as) that which is fruitful and good to a people/place, etc. it's easy to not judge another's Culture, in effort to feign ethnocentrism - but destructive elements of a culture are indeed not what should survive to define the culture itself... there is culture, and there is also humanity.
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to that which destroys the good -
advocate latter.
Your are Nice. And so is your site! Maybe you need some more pictures. Will return in the near future.
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