Isn't anyone who is not doing all they can to preserve traditions in effect hastening their demise? Has the unbridled spread of commercialism and technology transformed us from small groups of active amateur participants to a large single mass of professional passive spectators and non-stop consumers? Will future generations no longer concern themselves with such issues because their ability to read and think critically (or even clearly) will be long gone?
- As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. (Gore Vidal)
(C. Ikehara is a freelance writer: "It might be well said of me that here I have merely made up a bunch of other men's flowers, and provided nothing of my own but the string to tie them together." [Montaigne])
- As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. (Gore Vidal)
(C. Ikehara is a freelance writer: "It might be well said of me that here I have merely made up a bunch of other men's flowers, and provided nothing of my own but the string to tie them together." [Montaigne])
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