questioning cultural artifacts

I agree with Alan Jacobs here: Text Patterns � Blog Archive � questioning cultural artifacts. He pulls out of Andy Crouch's Culture Making something that impressed me recently in its brevity yet pointedness. These are questions that need to be used in assessing cultural artefacts:
"(1) What does this cultural artifact assume about the way the world is? What are the key features of the world that this cultural artifact tries to deal with, respond to, make sense of?

(2) What does this cultural artifact assume about the way the world should be? What vision of the future animated its creators? What new sense does it seek to add to a world that often seems chaotic and senseless?

(3) What does this cultural artifact make possible? What can people do or imagine, thanks to this artifact, that they could not before? Conversely,

(4) What does this cultural artifact make impossible (or at least very difficult)? What activities and experiences that were previously part of the human experience become all but impossible in the wake of this new thing?

(5) What new forms of culture are created in response to this artifact? What is cultivated and created that could not have been before?"