You're joking right? We live in an age where the left is busily trying to destroy many good ideas. The nuclear family being chief among them. To me it seems as though you're feigning ignorance here.
Secondly, for an idea to be dead it doesn't really matter if it was a good idea or not, merely that it's not espoused seriously anymore. The Aztec religion being a great example.
Ah, take it easy; I was not sure your comment was in good faith.
The nuclear family is an idea currently being fought for, however successfully or unsuccessfully. The idea remains alive and important As for the Aztecs, our world is enjoying a revival of sacrificing the young and weak for the betterment of those walking about. I mean, really, Canadians are sacrificing trauma victims to their idea of Altruism.
I'm not trying to be silly here. Changes in culture and the outward effects of an idea can change, The idea remains.
The idea didn't remain. Some vague similarities remained, but then no one culture has a monopoly on the concept of unwilling sacrifices.
And given that cultures themselves are an idea, that alone suffices to make the point. There are no Hittites or Capadocians anymore. Many cultures and polities lie dead in history.
Oh that's very, very false. Ideas can absolutely die. History is an enormous graveyard of ideas.
Maybe, what good ideas lie in the graveyard of history?
You're joking right? We live in an age where the left is busily trying to destroy many good ideas. The nuclear family being chief among them. To me it seems as though you're feigning ignorance here.
Secondly, for an idea to be dead it doesn't really matter if it was a good idea or not, merely that it's not espoused seriously anymore. The Aztec religion being a great example.
Ah, take it easy; I was not sure your comment was in good faith.
The nuclear family is an idea currently being fought for, however successfully or unsuccessfully. The idea remains alive and important As for the Aztecs, our world is enjoying a revival of sacrificing the young and weak for the betterment of those walking about. I mean, really, Canadians are sacrificing trauma victims to their idea of Altruism.
I'm not trying to be silly here. Changes in culture and the outward effects of an idea can change, The idea remains.
The idea didn't remain. Some vague similarities remained, but then no one culture has a monopoly on the concept of unwilling sacrifices.
And given that cultures themselves are an idea, that alone suffices to make the point. There are no Hittites or Capadocians anymore. Many cultures and polities lie dead in history.