The narratives of the past from even so short a time ago as the beginning of our own twentieth century now no longer describe us, and so each generation must reinvent the past to make it correspond to its sense of the present. William Irwin Thompson gives a fascinating talk on this transformation in mentality by examining four cultural ecologies.
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