“Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past”
“All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea.”
“But what is a slingshot against a 220 pound male with a sword?”
“Move on. It's just a chapter in the past. But don't close the book just turn the page.”
“Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo.”
“I have to force myself even to move my eyeballs. It's so easy just to stare.”