This is one of the many parables or wisdom from the book "Reflections" by author and teacher Idries Shah entitled "Attention and Regard".
"Attention and Regard" It is possible to have great affection and regard for individuals and groups without in any way reducing one's awareness of their currently poor capacity for understanding and preserving their heritage.
The present state of ignorance about distant and former cultures is not unique to this time. Unfortunately, though, the people of our time are not employing the superior resources to retrieve and develop the remnants of wider knowledge possessed elsewhere and at other times.
This is because, while the tools and the general freedom are there for the first time, desire, resolution, and breath of vision are absent, also for the time. The endowment is therefore at risk. For the first time."
Worthy brain food and a reflection I thought and had to share!
Have butcher's and let it be known.
