“Well if your culture is so strong it would survive-”
Let me get a baseball bat and smash that guy’s computer. If his computer is so strong, surely it will survive getting hit with a giant metal stick.
What’s that? Computers are complex and expensive and only strong in a sort of economic-utility sense that has nothing to do with physical strength?
Why gee, could it be when Nationalists are talking about the importance of culture, they aren’t talking about pure replicator power, but rather something that’s ‘strong’ more in an economic-utility and social technology sense?
Who would have possibly guessed that?