because it's *always* there, no matter how far back you go, if *any* extant social commentary literature has survived.
Then it ceases to be "We (modern) (white) (Europeans) (Americans) (Christians) are *so* much more civilized than thpse ancient foreign brown heathen savages" and "I agree with So-and-So of Such-and-Such, the respected teacher of ancient wisdom, where he says that X/Y/Z is an abomination and should be prohibited. You know you're ignoring your own wisdom tradition selectively, just the way we do, right?"
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The trick is to find internal criticism of those things
Date: 2006-06-02 12:40 am (UTC)Then it ceases to be "We (modern) (white) (Europeans) (Americans) (Christians) are *so* much more civilized than thpse ancient foreign brown heathen savages" and "I agree with So-and-So of Such-and-Such, the respected teacher of ancient wisdom, where he says that X/Y/Z is an abomination and should be prohibited. You know you're ignoring your own wisdom tradition selectively, just the way we do, right?"