Values of the past well serve the future.
Posted 10-18-2020 at 07:47 PM by jbgusa
There is an expression that he who doesn't know history is doomed to repeat it. Santayana I think. There is no reason not to learn from history. There is also no reason not to preserve the best parts of our past while forging ahead into the future.
No one in his right mind would go back to the typewriter era. No one would go back to the era before limited access roads. I hope no one would want to go back to an era when people's skin color or religion mattered in whether they could access education, jobs, housing or recreation. That does not mean abandoning the verities that have made us a great nation, a great society and a great place to live.
There is a reason that just about every country in Europe, Asia and Latin America has vomited their best people to our shores. Just one example of this. My next-door neighbors are a young couple where the husband comes from Germany and the wife from Columbia. The husband attended Columbia University (in NYC) and spent a junior semester abroad at the Sorbonne in Paris, where his wife was attending college. After the husband graduated the London School of Economics they settled in the U.S. and married. So they are here, the dregs of those societies are there. It is through those kinds of people that we make progress, not mindlessly importing tin-cup shakers in the name of "diversity."
Since our country has so much to offer, and so many opportunities, values of the past, such as freedom, well serve the future.
No one in his right mind would go back to the typewriter era. No one would go back to the era before limited access roads. I hope no one would want to go back to an era when people's skin color or religion mattered in whether they could access education, jobs, housing or recreation. That does not mean abandoning the verities that have made us a great nation, a great society and a great place to live.
There is a reason that just about every country in Europe, Asia and Latin America has vomited their best people to our shores. Just one example of this. My next-door neighbors are a young couple where the husband comes from Germany and the wife from Columbia. The husband attended Columbia University (in NYC) and spent a junior semester abroad at the Sorbonne in Paris, where his wife was attending college. After the husband graduated the London School of Economics they settled in the U.S. and married. So they are here, the dregs of those societies are there. It is through those kinds of people that we make progress, not mindlessly importing tin-cup shakers in the name of "diversity."
Since our country has so much to offer, and so many opportunities, values of the past, such as freedom, well serve the future.
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