Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.
Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.
In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.
Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
Doubt your doubts before you doubt your beliefs.
Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.
I don't question things that go against what I believe very much. But boy, the stuff that I really want to believe, I really question a lot.
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