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The West needs to recover a sense of the sacred
David Goldman, Standpoint
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
“Identity” as a concept is meaningless except as it is rooted in the past and pointed toward the future. Who we are at the moment depends on where we came from and where we expect to go. Our present, as Augustine argued in Confessions XI, is a composite of memory and anticipation.