“People have changed the climate of the world. Now they’re waiting for the old days to come back’.”
Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 57
“As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline—the illusion of the good old days.”
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Steven Pinker
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The Sense of Style
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The Sense of Style (2014)
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