...Strawberry Hill, Twickenham. Gave a talk to a group a the Benedict XVI Community House, on Faith, Culture and the New Evangelisation. I am interested in the point made by Weigel in his biography on Bl John Paul: "Culture is what drives history over the long haul." Not politics or economics. The Church does not impose herself by statecraft: she preaches the message of the Gospel - and sings it, and draws it, and paints it, and walks it, and celebrates it, and lives it in serve to the poor and sick and imprisoned.
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The Marxist understanding is that economics drives culture. The technology that people have creates their moral and philosophical thinking. Marx rather over-egged the pudding, for instance it seems unlikely that production is actually responsible for the phenomenon of consciousness. But to a large extent he was obviously right. Just to take a small example, in Tom Brown's Schooldays the boys drink bottled beer. Water purification technology created a whole new set of moral values.
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