“Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn?” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his 1838 address to the young scholars of the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College. By the way, in the video below, the number of years between these two eras was 80, not 100. In the 1960’s, the Pendulum was in the same place, headed in the same direction once again.
