Toward a Metanarrative
“This too shall pass away.” a mighty monarch was told, after he had charged his sages to come up with one grand and concise truth that would always and forever hold true. Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote a poem so entitled, and Carl Sandburg picked up on the phrase for one of his poetic gems. Every thinking person knows that change is inevitable and continuous, even so, do you think or get the feeling that there has been a huge crescendo of overall change of late? (I do understand that many older folks’ favorite pastime is playing “Ain’t It Awful,” but that’s not what I am doing.) Change has been in constant motion since the Fall; it's rate has been sporadic. Throughout history there have been epochal changes, and I believe that for several years, our culture has been and is now experiencing exactly that. It's not just that our way of saying and doing things has changed, but in a deeper way our culture’s manner of “seeing” all things...