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Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. (Proverbs 23)

Frivolousness of Newsness

And it is sure the duty of the older generation to be embarrassingly old-fashioned, for the claims of the ’newness’ of any younger generation are mostly frivolous. The young are born to the human condition more than to their time, and they may face mainly the same trails and obligations as their elders have faced.

Wendell Berry
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