Chronocentrism

We are as chronocentric today as people were ethnocentric in the past. If the past was another culture, we would be considered the worst of bigots. Life, as Edmund Burke said, is a contract between the generations of the present, the generations past, and the unborn. And we’ve broken our contracts with both. 

Published by Mr Nobody

An unusually iberal conservative, or an unusually conservative liberal. An Anglicized American, or possibly an Americanized Englishman. A bit of the city, a bit of country living. An emotional scientist. A systematic poet. Trying to stand up over the abyss of a divided mind.