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The Risks of Culture and the Times

“The Risks of Culture and the Times”

Melodies are modulated,
striving for richer expression.
Without pandering to the age, yet transcending it,
culture deepens itself toward its rightful form.

Thought is overemphasized,
means are devised to seize greater power.
Grasping the current of the times with cunning,
culture begins to show signs of collapse.

Social consciousness transforms,
discontent is released in ever more extreme ways.
The darker sides of the age are laid bare,
and culture, unable to resist, is swallowed by evil.

Judgments of good and evil become binary.
Right and wrong are pressed harder, tilting toward authority.
It is still not too late to resist the age—
I want to believe we are those who bear culture.

A chill runs through a world dyed in a single hue.
Stronger ideological control may soon begin.
Standing against a regressive drift toward war,
culture is a device that makes life shine.

Nameless people swayed by extremism are driven onward,
conflict is stirred in the name of change.
The age is rearranged into a frenzied rhapsody,
and culture shifts from creation to destruction.

Existing cultures lose their influence.
New cultural shoots sprout from the depths of confusion.
Looking ahead to what comes next in history’s repetition,
can culture be reborn—and restore our humanity?

(Written February 2, 2026. Observing myself resisting the ominous movements of the times.)


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