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Edgar
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"Turning and turning in the widening gyreWhen novelty is pursued and worshiped like a god, this is some of what can happen. A society devoid of a good belief system has no good choices left. Some people will propose anything and everything, especially things that are at variance with time-proven truths.
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand."
from The Second Coming, a poem by W. B. Yeats, 1865 - 1939