This extensive aspect of the conversation around culture is made difficult by culture having an intensive aspect. In this latter reading, it breaks down into a beautiful and a useful part, none of which depends on the other for sustenance, and both completely separable from each other. And over the period of the evolution of our species, as cultures have come to agree on their more useful bits – strong entities (people and countries) do not wage war on weaker ones simply because they can, victors are no longer permitted to feast on the hearts and vital organs of their male opponents while enslaving their wives and children, etc. – the tendency has been to wage culture wars around the cinematic aspects of different people’s ways of life.
Culture and progress, By Uddin Ifeanyi
