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“Moral reforms and deteriorations are moved by large forces, and they are mostly caused by reactions from the habits of a preceding period. Backwards and forwar
by oceanghost 9y ago
“Moral reforms and deteriorations are moved by large forces, and they are mostly caused by reactions from the habits of a preceding period. Backwards and forwards swings the great pendulum, and its alternations are not determined by a few distinguished folk clinging to the end of it.”
—Sir Charles Petrie, THE VICTORIANS
- benjohnson 9y agoWhat I see in Jordan Peterson is that he's not espousing an yet-another over-reaction, but a careful examination of ideas that have may have been discarded prematurely.
- oceanghost 9y agoI'm actually a fan of Peterson. The beauty of this quote is you can more or less read whatever you want into it :)