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Honesty, as Diogenes would caution, has never been the strong suit of the human species. Mandatory oath taking in legal proceedings was not invented out of faith in the natural probity of witnesses. Everybody fibs, alas. It is also true that every epoch has its roster of villains, its quota of predatory deceit. Yet today the roster seems far longer than usual, and most observers agree that the quota of duplicity-from artful dodging to elaborate fraud-is growing intolerably large...
...last 200 years, and with staggering acceleration in the last 25, the power, extent and depth of man's interventions in the natural order seem to presage a revolutionary new epoch in human history, perhaps the most revolutionary the mind can conceive. Men seem, on a planetary scale, to be substituting the controlled for the uncontrolled, the fabricated for the unworked, the planned for the random. And they are doing so with a speed and depth of intervention unknown in any previous age of human history...
These entries from 1939 to 1944 express more than mere temperament; they reveal a whole epoch. The fifth volume of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's confidential writings starts with the dawn of war in Europe, "like the morning after a death," and continues to another death, that of the French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery. "I am sad," she notes, "that he never forgave us for our stand...
...nearing the end of an epoch that stretched across a half-millenium of history. The age of expansion...is about to give way to a new age of scarcity and economic contraction...
...prevailing economic epoch presages the end of the prevailing theological as well ... we are in the early morning hours of a second Protestant reformation...