For all its progress and possibilities, our modern world has difficulty seeing beyond itself. Every age has to struggle against its blind spots.
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In ancient Rome, for example, the span of a person’s influence was reckoned at 100 years. Within that horizon individuals could remember two generations back and care for two generations forward. Then, as the custom went, that influence stopped, and a new century, with new people and new concerns, would reset itself.
But lasting societies need a broader vision.
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