Jono (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} jonathancastell) wrote,@ 2008-03-18 10:19:00 |
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where.you.are
"So, although it may seem that we are out of step with our time, the opposite is true: the times themselves are out of joint. In this way, we follow Schiller's dictum: “live in your own century, but be not its creature”. We relate to our times; we are a part of our culture, precisely because we are critics of its actions. To paraphrase a modern philosopher, the friends of Canada cannot afford to be its flatterers. Because we are between the times, we therefore belong to our age all the more. We participate in the world as a counterpoint to it, not in spite of our dissent, but because of it" (Estabon).
"So, although it may seem that we are out of step with our time, the opposite is true: the times themselves are out of joint. In this way, we follow Schiller's dictum: “live in your own century, but be not its creature”. We relate to our times; we are a part of our culture, precisely because we are critics of its actions. To paraphrase a modern philosopher, the friends of Canada cannot afford to be its flatterers. Because we are between the times, we therefore belong to our age all the more. We participate in the world as a counterpoint to it, not in spite of our dissent, but because of it" (Estabon).
