In addressing the Catholic bishops of Africa, the brilliant Anthony Esolen explains the true meaning of culture, which requires virtuous habits – often called “prejudices” by ignorant snobs.
“They have prejudices, we are told by high Church figures – cultural prejudices. Thank God for cultural prejudices, if that is what they are; a cultural prejudice implies that you do have a culture, while that most human and social of things is fading from the West; what the West now brings is a solvent for culture, an ideal of monochrome globalism, managed by the most ill-read, ill-bred, dim-sighted, and irreligious elites the world has ever produced.”
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