Instead of instructing its age with its understanding and serenely sinking its roots into the past, the people of this age randomly strew good seed and bad into all directions. There is no center of gravity any more from which perspective can be gained. Every individual steps forth and sets up shop as teacher and leader and purveys the most utter nonsense as if it were the well-rounded perfection of the whole. In this way, then, even the value of each individual mystery has been destroyed, and the faith of the people desecrated.
Goethe, "The Four Ages of Man" 1817.
Wonder what Goethe might have thought regarding the advent of blogging, and the internet in general?
Just musing.
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