Maggie's Farm

Totally awesome! As I wrote in AVIs comments:

CS Lewis's is the best quotation ever. It got me to thinking about the Founding Fathers' vision and that famous John Adams quotation:

"I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine."

He missed the final step, when forgetfulness sets in:

". . . in order to give their Children a right to study Political Correctness, Moral Relativism and Navel Gazing."

Related thoughts from my tsunami blogpost of four years back, "Then a gradual return to forgetfulness":

"It's only human to forget -- repress? -- horrific experiences, to move on. Those who were there and lived to tell the tale are scarred for life and will never forget. They know it in their bones and will try to warn the world -- of what? Pay attention to your surroundings? Don't take anything for granted? Repent before it's too late? -- with their stories. Locally it will enter the communal lore. But beyond the region, it won't stick. The rest of us out here in the larger world -- who only hear of it, see media images and try in our mind's eye to imagine the horror but then can turn away to the comfort of our everyday lives -- we are the ones in danger of forgetting."