Reading anything Nine Shift related this summer? Tell us!
I've just finished "The Way of All Flesh," by Samuel Butler, the first great novel of the 20th century and one of the top 100 novels of the last century.
The story points out the hypocrisy of Victorian moral standards and how obsolete they were for the time. Fathers hitting sons, the leisure class having no positive social role, institutions not protecting the mass of people.
Here's a great line from the book about change and what is deemed "right" "Right is what seems right to the majority of sensible, well-to-do people; we know of no safer criterion than this....."
And so as we move from one age to another, what is "right" eventually gets changed.
What are you reading? Any implications for society and change? Tell us!
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