Chronological Snobbery Quotes
Chronological Snobbery Quote of the day
We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.
Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.
A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.
If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable.
I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a great deal over the millennia. Human technology? Of course. Human beings? Hardly.
Lewis had experienced more trauma than most of his modern readers ever will.
