The cliche reasons for engaging in heritage and conserving any
culture aside, the prospect of a completely inter-connected world
that runs on capitalism seems to make such efforts futile, even
irrelevant.
Is it a phobia of information technology and economics that drives
some to conserve pre-war structures? The promotion of the Chinese
language with the premise of retaining our cultural roots. Or is
Chinese simply a tool that makes us at least useful, bridging the
East and West.
If in the long run, societies will evolve and economies completely
free, what is heritage? Would we need heritage? Would we need to
engage with the past?
If history has indeed come to its end, with all that is, been
fulfilled, what sense has it in preservation? Social security or
persistant denial?
Nationalism shall be purely political, driven by survival
instincts. For the very dynamics of the necessary evil is based on
such. Competition will lead to our self-mastery and for most, a
lost existence and false consciousness. Finally it ends in
depletion.
Yet the oasis lies in ethics and faith, that ultimately keeps us
sane, and thus conscious of the being.