"Many people today who are atheist or agnostic in religion, are governed in their conduct by a code of Christian ethics which is so rooted in their unconscious assumptions that it never occurs to them to question it. But one cannot live on capital forever. A tradition, however firmly rooted, if it is never watered, though it dies hard, yet in the end it dies." -- Dorothy Sayers, The Lost Tools of Learning
Much of today's anarchy is benefactors of yesterday's order. But anything that can't go on forever... won't and insanity cannot sustain itself. Chaos can make hay with yesterday's sowing, but eventually it destroys everything and there's nothing left. To borrow a phrase they are so fond of, "it's not sustainable." You cannot pluck up everything someone else planted and expect there to be anything left if you don't plant any more. Insanity devours itself. Much of the freedom the United States enjoys was canned decades ago and the pantry is beginning to be sparse. You can only live off of yesterday's diligence so long before it becomes tomorrow's poverty.
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