“It is an age of Revolutions, in which everything may be looked for”
As Thomas Paine wrote this, he had already lived through the American Revolution, and now was witnessing first-hand the French Revolution. HIs time was indeed one of revolutionary change.
We, too, live in extraordinary times. It becomes clearer with each passing decade, and then each passing year, that our imminent survival as a civilized species depends on revolutionary changes, in our own time. We must embrace what is now called upon us and look for everything. It is in the least expected corner of our minds, of any collective wisdom we may be graced to posses, that we will find the road out of the wilderness.
It is incumbent on each new generation not to turn back, but to forever seek that road.