...now the necessary shared medium, the life-blood or perhaps rather the minimal shared atmosphere — Moreover, it must now be a great or high (literate, training-sustained) culture Only the state can do this, and, even in countries in which important parts of the educational machine...

...and coercive constraints; culture is now the necessary shared medium, the life-blood or perhaps the minimal shared atmosphere, within which alone the...training-sustained) culture, and it can no longer be a diversified, locality-tied, illiterate little culture or tradition. (1983: 37-8) In Gellner's sense, then, a common...

...culture. Exo-socialisation, education proper, is now the virtually universal norm. It is now a great culture, and it can no longer be a diversified, locally-tied, illiterate little culture or tradition. The imperative of exo-socialisation is the main clue as to why state and culture must now be linked...