The greater a people's achievements The shabbier their alien encroachments. When it comes to past acts of shame, Most races and people are the same. Greater the good a culture has brought Worse also the evil that it has wrought. Every people's history must speak loud Of people of whom they feel proud. When one's laurels now are not so vast, One tends to extol one's distant past.
Civilization often springs From obsession with way-out things.
If there's no one them to propagate. The views you think are yours indeed Come from TV, papers, and things your read. Time, once come, can't again be seen Unless it's the news magazine. If in ancient times they had TV, Christ and Buddha we still could see. Crime and violence make the news, Also the journalists' own private views.