Posted by Drealm on
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qwerty wrote

Well, what are we labeling as modern culture? I don't think that we should label other identity groups, such as being a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, or someone with a particular interest/hobby, as being synonymous with modern culture, and anyone who is part of such a group shouldn't feel like they have to choose between that group and Mikraite. However, I usually think of modern culture as promiscuous sexual activity, drinking or doing drugs, tattoos, listening to bad modern pop music, and other obnoxious behaviors. I would consider it essential for our remembers to not identify with this sort of modern culture and not to associate to a great extent with people who represent this sort of modern culture.

I think "modern" is an extremely convoluted and unhelpful term. I don't know where the term originated but I do know what it means in architecture. In architecture modern refers to a pre World War II style of architecture. By today's standards modern architecture is significantly more civilized than what is now called "post-modern". Compare Mies Van Der Rohe's house (modern) to Frank Gehry's house (post-modern). I see modern as a new enlightened priesthood. Modernists changed the old rules but still appealed to authority, the authority was just misguided. Many modern architects still designed with humanity in mind. They still disciplined their ego. For example no post-modern architect today would propose a communist like vision as Le Corbusier did with his Radiant City. Post-modernism is more like atheists who've rebuked authority all together and returned to savagery. So how does the word modern in architecture apply to culture? If the same era for modern and post-modern is applied to culture then this makes no sense to me. The United States was culturally pretty good in the early 20th century.

Regarding choosing between another group and Mikraite, I think people already are doing this. We haven't had anyone from any other group join us and actively remain in another group. My view is that this shows that people want one strong identity. There's no need for us if they have an identity somewhere else and vice versa.