The New Is Always Better, the Old Worse

We are forever on the move. The new is always rich and relevant, the old threadbare and obsolete. Ours is the shining city on a hill in john winthrop's memorable coinage,. A city that could begin afresh because it had no past. We call for candidates with new ideas, votaries to a perpetually malleable future. Here is the spirit of eldorado, the hope that riches and salvation wait around the next bend. In the r od old gospels lack the beckoning allure of the road not taken. But like explorers in the desert, ever prone to mirage, we have had, along with remarkable discoveries, a few false sightings.