“The greatest blessing a society can confer on its young is to turn them into the heirs, rather than the orphans, of history. It is also the greatest blessing a society can confer on itself, for heirs rejuvenate the heritage by creatively renewing its legacies. Orphans, by contrast, relate to the pas…”— Robert Pogue Harrison, amazon.comTagged: Historical Continuum, Orphans, Legacy, Movements of History, Orphanage of Postmodernity
“It may appear as if the world now belongs mostly to the younger generations, with their idiosyncratic mindsets and technological gadgetry, yet in truth, the age as a whole, whether wittingly or not, deprives the young of what youth needs most if it hopes to flourish. It deprives them of idleness, sh…”— Robert Pogue Harrison, amazon.comTagged: Old vs. Young, Youth, Snapchat, Internal Lives