The cliche reasons for engaging in heritage and conserving any culture aside, the prospect of a completely inter-connected world that runs on capitalism seems to make such efforts futile, even irrelevant.
Is it a phobia of information technology and economics that drives some to conserve pre-war structures? The promotion of the Chinese language with the premise of retaining our cultural roots. Or is Chinese simply a tool that makes us at least useful, bridging the East and West.
If in the long run, societies will evolve and economies completely free, what is heritage? Would we need heritage? Would we need to engage with the past?
If history has indeed come to its end, with all that is, been fulfilled, what sense has it in preservation? Social security or persistant denial?
Nationalism shall be purely political, driven by survival instincts. For the very dynamics of the necessary evil is based on such. Competition will lead to our self-mastery and for most, a lost existence and false consciousness. Finally it ends in depletion.
Yet the oasis lies in ethics and faith, that ultimately keeps us sane, and thus conscious of the being.
well i dont really get what ur saying totally but heritage and history is extremely important as it gives us some identity.
to understand history is to understand yourself.
with increased globalisation it is especially impt to know our history and heritage otherwise we would lose our orientation.
Why do you remember who did what to you in your life time? If your arguement goes, then whatever anyone has done to you in your lifetime has no relevance to your future and hence you will be a better person waking up everyday knowing nothing of what happen yesterday.