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Gwahir, on the other hand, is taking the position of a sort of cultural determinism: acts of will are heavily influenced, if not determined, by the conceptual apparatus of a belief system and/or a culture (in fact, he may go so far as to question such a distinction between belief and act at all); therefore, there ought to be a system to call into account demagogues and memetic structures themselves (in some ways this is a predictable anglophone distinction between the USA and the later British territories: the USA was forged in the heat of British Empiricist thinking and is strongly puritan and nonconformist in culture; the remaining British territories are more influenced by cultural, religious and political pragmatism, the wishy-washyness of anglicanism is a perfect exemplar of this thinking; its strength is that opinion and reason are more strongly linked in the public forum, its weakness is in making principle bow to expediency (i.e. freedom of speech is a fine thing unless there's a problem with it; we oughtn't to censor the internet but...etc.etc.etc.))
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