The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.
Roger Scruton
[In] An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture,.. Sometimes, as with the Spice Girls or the Pet Shop Boys, serious doubts arise as to whether the performers made more than a minimal contribution to the recording, which owes its trademark to subsequent sound engineering, designed precisely to make it unrepeatable.
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The ethical life.. Is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society.. Unlike the modern youth culture, a common culture sanctifies the adult state, to which it offers rites of passage.
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The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.
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The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.
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