“Cultural decline is not inevitable.”
“What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.”
“In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable.”
“Culture is like a smog. To livewithin it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, becontaminated.”
“...the intranslatable intonations of a foreigner, the inevitable cross-cultural misunderstandings lurking in tones and glances and assumptions.”
“Death is inevitable. But the meaning people attach to death, its causes and aftermath, is culturally given. Without meaning, without culture making sense of things, life would be impossible.”