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Winning the Culture War

Winning the Culture War

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Christine Axsmith
May 05, 2023
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The Culture War

Everybody Wins

I have a solution: good manners.

My opinion on your life choices can be anything. But if we agree that everyone deserves good manners, I would call you by whatever name or identity you wanted. It’s doesn’t affect me at all to just respect your choice at this moment.

Think about so much of 17th-century politics, when people would die over the wording of a prayer book

This technique means everybody wins - which doesn’t have universal appeal, I know. How are we supposed to feel comfy in our superiority if we can’t humiliate our intellectual opponents and get them to admit they are wrong? Well, you’ll have to settle for wearing designer jeans.

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We Are Not in an Uniquely Horrible Time

It may surprise you, my Tellions, that there have been culture wars in the past:

  • Christianity in Ancient Rome

  • Translating the Bible into English

  • Alphabet vs. hieroglyphics

  • Protestantism

  • Burial vs. mummification or burning pyres

  • Confucianism vs. Taoism

  • Germany’s Bismarck government vs. the…

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