Simon had interesting thoughts about how to apply cultural studies to our world. I don’t know the answers to some of his questions, but I think we can at least begin to apply some of the theories by unmasking many of our assumptions about what motivates us in our daily lives. I think by realizing, and helping others to realize, just how interconnected and contingent our cultural values are, we are better able to communicate with one another on the cultural and cross-cultural level.
There’s also an apologetic value to cultural studies for the Church. It seems to me cultural studies is similar to Bible criticism of the last few hundred years. Just as they applied modern critical techniques to better understand the Bible and how it came about, today these critics of culture reveal latent assumptions that we have about the “texts” of our lives, and they parse them out for us. But, just like Bible criticism, it is tool that can be used for good or bad.
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