Real Culture, or Culture as Costume? | Episode CXIII
About this episode
The episode discusses the distinction between genuine culture and its superficial representation in politics.
Send us Fan Mail Properly understood, politics is an expression of culture. But the politician would like to use culture for political ends. In doing so, he boils his people's culture down to the merely aestheticized: food, traditional dance, music, dialect or accent. But this is culture as mere costume, not as a vital force that incarnates the total, religious experience of a people's life. Similar to the way a shallow version of culture gets deployed for political ends, so education...
Topics covered
- culture
- politics
- education
- aesthetics
- religion
- society
Keywords
- culture
- politics
- education
- aesthetic
- traditional
- dance
- music
- dialect
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