Wrichard writes:

“‘Multiculturalism’ is the most destructive ideology in possible in a globalized world because it implicitly assumes the existence of nations to lend it stability; it postulates a dominant culture to lend the framework keep the multi-culti from collapsing on itself.”

The reason ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ is so funny is that the viewer can assume dominant cultural values that provide an interpretive norm for the satire.

“Listen, strange women lyin’ in ponds distributin’ swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony! . . . Help, help, I’m being oppressed!”

The irony in part is that the old stories (a nod here to Samwise Gamgee) do indeed matter, because they carry the code of the culture. A ‘mandate from the masses’ is no basis for a system of government.

If you want to destroy a culture, change the stories that the culture tells to itself. Out with Arthur. In with celebration of all the stories from all around the world. Out with patriotism. In with cosmopolitanism.