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The heavy impact of startling new information may shake or shatter an individual’s vision, but does not in itself realign moral values. Mass unemployment, hunger, the killing of innocents, the deliberate degradation of the human spirit, or the cynical unleashing of war, all inspire the same horror as before. What changes is the perception of who or what is doing it and why.
A Conflict of Visions
Thomas Sowell
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
This is the question at the heart of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1954 masterwork, *The Lord of the Rings*. Middle-earth is marred by civilizational decline, the loss of hope among men, and a profound sense that the beauty of the past is doomed to decay. This slow fading was the author’s attempt to express something he had felt all his life, which he once described as a “heart-racking sense of the vanished past.”
How to Live Through a Great Decline
The Culturist
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