Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 9 | 314 | A View more quotes about culture">culture did seem to have its own dynamics, its own life, a life, a biography, to which the welfare or happiness of its components might be only indirectly related, if at all. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 9 | 311 | "To what then?" I asked. |
| 9 | 312 | "To the culture itself," she said, "its prolongation". |
| 9 | 313 | "I see," I said. |
| 9 | 314 | A culture did seem to have its own dynamics, its own life, a life, a biography, to which the welfare or happiness of its components might be only indirectly related, if at all. |
| 9 | 315 | A plant was organic, and the health of the plant assured the health of its components. |
| 9 | 316 | A culture, on the other hand, though it might crumble and lapse into obsolescence, was commonly not organic, but mechanistic, and the functioning of the machine required not the happiness, health, or welfare of its parts, but only that they functioned appropriately, contributing to the pointless longevity of the machine itself. |
| 9 | 317 | "Is there no such thing as nature?" I asked. |
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"To what then?" I asked.
"To the culture itself," she said, "its prolongation".
"I see," I said.
A culture did seem to have its own dynamics, its own life, a life, a biography, to which the welfare or happiness of its components might be only indirectly related, if at all.
A plant was organic, and the health of the plant assured the health of its components.
A culture, on the other hand, though it might crumble and lapse into obsolescence, was commonly not organic, but mechanistic, and the functioning of the machine required not the happiness, health, or welfare of its parts, but only that they functioned appropriately, contributing to the pointless longevity of the machine itself.
"Is there no such thing as nature?" I asked.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)