Friday 25 August 2017

A Strange Place

"He didn't know anyone at home who didn't go to church at least occasionally... The world had been a strange place before the Change."
-SM Stirling, The Given Sacrifice (New York, 2014), Chapter Seven, p. 148.

The strange is merely the unfamiliar. "And therefore, as a stranger, give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio..."

When Margaret Thatcher was the first woman Prime Minister of Great Britain, Ted Heath appeared on TV. An adult told a child, "That man was one of the Prime Ministers before Mrs Thatcher." The child replied, "Oh, were men allowed to do it, then?"

That gives me hope. Bringing up one generation differently will change the world.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Commenting on your last sentence, the contrarian in me would say that the more things change, the more they stay the same! That is, human beings will not change in their ESSENTIALS.

Sean