03.28.06
Evaluating Culture
Tyler Cowen has some interesting thoughts on comparing cultures to one another.
Why should the greatness of the best composer, or the best poet, be the relevant unit for judging a culture? What if one culture (modernity?) produces lesser creative titans, but produces many more of them? How are we to weigh the quality of the peak versus quantity of the total?
Marginal Revolution: Should we evaluate cultures by their peaks?
