Culture is a fine expression of humanity's
love affair with language and literature
our fascination with the science of nature
our longing for music to soften our days
and painting and sculpture to reflect the
natural and the human, the soaring ambition
of architecture complementing our urge to
manipulate the world to our advantage. It is
the ultimate expression of civilization as
sophisticated populations exalt existence in
and of itself a fine enterprise from birth to
oblivion. And then it behooves us to muse
why it is that cultivation of these symbols of
a higher order of existence differs so widely
from here to there. There is where an enduring
tribalism triumphs the finer instincts jostling
for supremacy, tribe and clan taking precedence
stalling human progress in the primitively
ascendant conflicts that topple order and security
where ancient rites of conflict and preoccupation
with conquest metes out death even as death
stalks victor and vanquished, in famine and
pestilence, reaping what they ceaselessly sow.
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