By Richard Weaver.
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Culture grows from roots more enduring than those of the political state. It also offers satisfactions more intimate than those of the political state; and hence it is wrong to force it to defer to political abstractions; the very fact that not chosen to embody those abstractions it has evidence is that they are extraneous. Culture emerges out of cli- and lin- matic, geographical, ecological, racial, religious, guistic soils; may have a state to deal with all these factors, but it does not deal with them at the level where they enter into cultural expression.
The ever latent temptation to invoke the right of moral censorship makes it desirable to study the question in principle. The idea that a society can be absolutely open either politically or culturally seems to be untenable. But it can be more open culturally, and the reason for saying this is that cultural or artistic creation exists in the province of the imagination. That isolated province, is not a completely but since cultural works are not im- 26 Life mediately Without Prejudice and Other Essays moral consequences, they it is determined imitating art"— they are going to translated into should get the longest hearing before whether— "nature prove deleterious.
These forms for of such regimes, We know what they are; they are part and parcel and the case against them is largely one with the case against those regimes. It is governments which are popular and otherwise with free, but which allow political sanction to pressures building up against types of cultural expression. it easy, in these cases, Sometimes we do not find between society to distinguish and government; but we can be clear as to the direction of the pressure. It moves to condemn on grounds which are social and political, and its desire is for uniformity, standardization, consolidation, and all the other features of Gleichschaltung, as it moves to protect from criticism and even from realistic depiction something over which people have become politically excited.