Condemning the past for not being the present has been a popular intellectual superstition among self-styled enlightened for the past century and a quarter, at least.
Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Ah, yes…”presentism”, which Chesterton dissected unmercifully, as only he can, in The Everlasting Man. It seems to be a feature of the human psyche, not a bug. Another thing we have to fight day by day.
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