I have talked previously about attempts to measure culture, but considered that though the ideas of others certainly has merit and even truth, perhaps it wasn’t the whole picture. perhaps it never is.
I offer an addition to the giants, standing as I am, on their shoulders.
I am going to examine the idea of cultural entropy and cultural inertia.
Cultural Inertia is when the culture has dissapeared yet we see it has an influence on our every day world
Take for example the names of the days of the week in English. They are named after Viking Gods or Roman Gods . But the Babylonians started it all, naming the days of a “week” after the 5 planets known to them. Emperor Constantine declared that the week had 7 days in AD 321 and the same man said that Christianity should be the religion or the Romans.
Cultures change, evolve, dissapear or are even destroyed. Claims that there is a fight to preserve certain cultural norms from being replaced are just nonsense as eventually all cultures change. The far right are trying to install a fear that European culture is at risk from immigration or shifts in moral attitudes but if we listen to the howling sirens we will surely end up on the rocks. Cultural inertia and cultural entropy should not prevent us from creating a new culture,new art,poems ,songs and dance. We have the right to change our culture but not to use culture as an excuse to embrace darkness
I DREAM OF THOUGHT 