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Continuities of time are disrupted as the traditions that embody them are disrupted or discarded, ways of thinking and behaving change no longer gradually and at a pace that the culture can absorb, but radically, rapidly and with the implicit, and at times explicit, aim of erasing the past. And,
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Consider the actions of the last four years (2020 -24) of the riots and removal of statues through to the destruction of Palestine by Israel. Let alone al the other examples of the past century of cultural devestation by both extremes of the political or religious ideological extremists.
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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