The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same

While I was going through the blogs tonight, I came across something interesting. It was an excerpt from a book. After clicking the link and reading the rest, I was somewhat disturbed by the similarities. Here is a little of it. I changed 1 word for reasons you will understand after you read on.

"You have gone almost all the way yourself. Life is a continuing process, a flow, not a succession of acts and events at all. It has flowed to a new level, carrying you with it, without any effort on your part. On this new level you live, you have been living more comfortably every day, with new morals, new principles. You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things that your father, even in America, could not have imagined.

"Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you havenÂ’t done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember those early meetings of your department in the university when, if one had stood, others would have stood, perhaps, but no one stood. A small matter, a matter of hiring this man or that, and you hired this one rather than that. You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair.(read the rest)(h/t Ablog)