In my last column, “The dead, the unborn, the living, and a contract,” I made the Burkean case, (after Edmund Burke) that there is an unwritten contact between our ancestors who have passed on, the dead, those of us who are alive right now, the living, and those who are yet to be born, the unborn. This contract, which extends to the past and to the future, gives those generations – the dead and the unborn – a vote in where we go, a vote in where any country goes as it lives on.
Rescuing a nation
Rescuing a nation
Rescuing a nation
In my last column, “The dead, the unborn, the living, and a contract,” I made the Burkean case, (after Edmund Burke) that there is an unwritten contact between our ancestors who have passed on, the dead, those of us who are alive right now, the living, and those who are yet to be born, the unborn. This contract, which extends to the past and to the future, gives those generations – the dead and the unborn – a vote in where we go, a vote in where any country goes as it lives on.