Is Hope for Our Future to Be Found in Our Past?

Is Hope for Our Future to Be Found in Our Past?
People donning early- and mid-20th century fashion stand in the doorway of a vintage MTA subway train, which only runs during the holidays, in Manhattan on Dec. 14, 2014. The event includes live jazz bands and dancing. Benjamin Chasteen/Epoch Times
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All over the world, people have the sense that something has gone wrong. Our neighborhoods are no longer safe. Children aren’t learning the skills they need for life in school; instead they are taught to judge everyone by their race or gender. The jobs we thought we would have for decades disappear with little warning, and the only new jobs we can get don’t pay enough to live on. Marriage is no longer the rock on which we can build out future; all around us, we see friends and family members getting divorces. Entertainment seems intended to be shocking instead of enjoyable. What is going on?

The answer is, a deliberate effort to destroy all historic cultures and replace them with ideologies. Cultures develop from the ground up over many generations, and they reflect what those generations have learned. They are accumulated wisdom, the wisdom of many, often millions of people. They vary from place to place because the conditions of life also vary geographically, and peoples have different histories. Cultures is embodied not in politics and laws but in customs, habits, and traditions. These guided our ancestors for m any generations, and they worked. They gave those people good lives, as good as surrounding conditions would permit.

William S. Lind
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