I especially enjoyed the first passage from Gilson, where he touches on the angst which drives the younger generation's yearning to dismantle old truths. I find this to be a natural progression, as you yourself refer to the desire to be a part of some "great shift". It's almost as if "teenage rebellion" and youthful naivety carry on into a person's 20's. This also happens to be the time when individuals gain more social and political power, which allows for actual movement and advancement of ideologies and "new truths", for the betterment or detriment of society. I, myself, felt the pull of this unconscious force in my early 20's. I think youthful hubris drives a lot of it: the idea that "parents" and "old fogies" can't possibly understand. Could it be this same sentiment that is also acting on a larger time-scale, threatening centuries-old truths?
This got me thinking about Cormac McCarthy’s “No Country for Old Men” and this passage in particular:
“The stories get passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the sayin goes. Which I reckon some would take as meanin that the truth can’t compete. but I dont believe that. I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It don't move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt. You cant corrupt it because that's what it is.”
You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt. Do you agree? Do you think the truth eventually makes its way out? Or can it gradually be changed by subsequent generations?
I especially enjoyed the first passage from Gilson, where he touches on the angst which drives the younger generation's yearning to dismantle old truths. I find this to be a natural progression, as you yourself refer to the desire to be a part of some "great shift". It's almost as if "teenage rebellion" and youthful naivety carry on into a person's 20's. This also happens to be the time when individuals gain more social and political power, which allows for actual movement and advancement of ideologies and "new truths", for the betterment or detriment of society. I, myself, felt the pull of this unconscious force in my early 20's. I think youthful hubris drives a lot of it: the idea that "parents" and "old fogies" can't possibly understand. Could it be this same sentiment that is also acting on a larger time-scale, threatening centuries-old truths?
This got me thinking about Cormac McCarthy’s “No Country for Old Men” and this passage in particular:
“The stories get passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the sayin goes. Which I reckon some would take as meanin that the truth can’t compete. but I dont believe that. I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It don't move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt. You cant corrupt it because that's what it is.”
You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt. Do you agree? Do you think the truth eventually makes its way out? Or can it gradually be changed by subsequent generations?