Jane Jacobs Quotes About Culture
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The salient mystery of Dark Ages sets the stage for mass amnesia. People living in vigorous cultures typically treasure those cultures and resist any threat to them. How and why can a people so totally discard a formerly vital culture that it becomes vitally lost?
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Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past.
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Advanced cultures are usually sophisticated enough, or have been sophisticated enough at some point in their pasts, to realize that foxes shouldn't be relied on to guard henhouses.
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Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture.
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