"A positive culture must have a positive set of values, and the dissentients must remain marginal, tending to make only marginal contributions." 

T.S. Eliot The Idea of a Christian Society (1939)

T.S. Eliot here dissents from the liberal creeds that we nowadays call multiculturalism, inclusion, and the open society.  What he calls a "positive culture" positively affirms itself, while it at the same time rejects all other cultures. It may reject them implicitly or explicitly, courteously or rudely, but it must reject them because it has faith in itself.  If I like books and you like beer, I can leave you to your brew; but each time I turn a page, I declare that books are better.Continue reading ""We Must Believe Thereon": A Note Against Open Society."