Jehu,
Wagner speaks of us as rebelliously breaking taboos that were formed by
our forefathers, but that is not true. In the present more is known than
was known in the past, they had outdated views and opinions, and their
ideologies were vulgar and unsophisticated. At present we are more
knowledgeable, more refined than what has gone before. The people of the
past waged unjust wars. They had superstition and prejudices that
clouded their visions of morality, and the product of that is a large
amount of taboos and precedents and traditions that are immoral or
meaningless. Now is the age of enlightenment, now and never before is
the future at hand, mixing with the present as we learn more and more
about our world. We are progressive, learning and growing in philosophy
and lifestyle.
"If those of the past were so upright and wise, than why are they not
still among the living? If they were so powerful, then why are they now
extinct? The past is gone, but the future is yet to come, it still holds
tangible pleasures, not memories, it has promise and potential, while
the past is only the ruins of the same. When the past is looked back
upon, it is small and immaterial, it is like time crumpled up into a wad
of memories, and a time yesterday or a thousand years ago looks the
same, for it is past, it is no more.
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