Progress and Skepticism

Nostalgia is often misplaced, but so is untempered confidence in the march of progress. Here is what social progress looks like in America: 

And this is progress in the arts:

I offer to you a motto for the skeptic of the modern age:

"I will praise nothing just because it is new, and despise nothing just because it is old. 

I will praise nothing just because it is old, and despise nothing just because it is new."