Demands for cultural respect signal that the culture in question is dead

Evidence

RESPECT, respect for everyone… (when culture demands respect, when respect is the appropriate response to culture, you know it’s either died in its sleep or been killed). Respect is how they killed Shakespeare, make it all a part of the National Heritage… — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 798

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to ch35’s ‘Museum-culture commemoration without new viewers is a cemetery’ and ch16’s claim that ritual power depends on meaninglessness — respect-as-canonization is the embalming reflex. — connects to: Mere preservation of tradition destroys culture, not sustains it — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 564; Cultures do not die but become undead, persisting as mere lifestyle options — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1084
• SEED: Essay angle on how ‘respect’ functions as a death certificate across contemporary culture — from Shakespeare to the archive-baiting of dead musicians.

Broader Connections

• Mere preservation of tradition destroys culture, not sustains it #expands (0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 564