The Barbarism that is called culture

 There is the argument (Benjamin) that Culture is not so

much threatened by barbarism, but being implicated in it:

Barbarism lurks in the very concept of culture—as the concept of a fund of values which is considered independent not, indeed, of the production process in which these values originated, but of the one in which they survive. In this way they serve the apotheosis of the latter, barbaric as it may be