(from) The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
- Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
- Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Today I offer the words of George Santayana in the hope that those on the political right might read them and recognize the very real and imminent threat to human existence climate change poses.
Unfortunately, today's Republicans have shown that they only listen to what rattles around in the right-wing echo chamber.
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