Have you noticed how things that are important to one generation vanish in the next, or at least in another? How one century can be governed by people ascribing to one point of view only to have it overturned in another century? I have often believed and accepted that, as the sages have said, we live our lives through our ignorance not through our intelligence. When we discover something we change, but before the discovery we are set in our ways.
There was a time when war was considered the right and duty of every man, today in many places in the world we argue this point. There was a time when religions ruled imagination but that is no longer the case. When men and women had separate places in society, when there was no such thing as childhood, when killing animals wholesale was never considered a bad thing to do, when we believed god kept us alive and not the biodiverse planet.
We look back at the past and sometimes shake our heads at what people accepted as the norm but really, we should be questioning ourselves and asking why we accept what we accept. At what things the future will raise an eyebrow and say, ‘how could they have done that …?’
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