People keep on wanting to rank cultures on a scale of better to worse. They want reassurance that they're in one of the "good" (advanced, progressive, ancient, conservative, complex, simple, etc.) cultures and somebody else is in a worse one.
But it doesn't work like that. There aren't better or worse cultures, any more than there are better or worse languages or better or worse alphabets. They're just different styles of being human.
Not a big fan, okay not a fan at all, of SE Cupp but sometimes, she actually makes sense; This is one of those times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuU9l6cnEzc
Ryuichi Sakamoto, Oscar-Winning Japanese Composer, Dies at 71 [gift article]
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/arts/music/ryuichi-sakamoto-dead.html
"A cache of 243 paintings found in an English castle, all depicting canine subjects, suggests Vermeer’s true aspiration was to become a dog portraitist." https://hyperallergic.com/811644/newly-discovered-trove-of-vermeer-works-reveals-he-painted-mainly-dogs/
From Al Franken April 2020 April 2020 but remains true to this day...even more so after Jan 6 2021 https://alfranken.com/read/mike-pence-the-banality-of-banality
We interupt this weekend #CoSoMusic playlist for this utterly fantastic piece of advertising from Twix.
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