By Matt Reese
We are currently facing a time that may offer a chance for thought and introspection. Many folks are offering up words of wisdom and I will spare you most of mine, but I do want to share some of the wiser words I’ve come across during this unique time for our farms, our state and our nation.
One of the best things I have read comes from one of my favorite authors, C.S. Lewis, and his “On Living in an Atomic Age?? from 1948 where he writes about the great public concerns about the newly developing societal fears at the time. It seems there are many applications for our current situation.
In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. “How are we to live in an atomic age??? I am tempted to reply: “Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.??
In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation.? Continue reading
