Culture Is Downstream From Technology

You can have capitalism or traditional values, but not both

Handaxe from the Olduvai Gorge (Image credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Andrew Breitbart, late publisher of the eponymous conservative e-zine, famously remarked that “politics is downstream from culture.” Breitbart’s point was that in order to create a political constituency for conservative policies, you had to first capture the imagination of the public, and the way you…