I don't think anyone sees truth for a simple reason: we aren't static.

We are not evolved but evolving.

The way even movements change is stunning: Chinese communist capitalists? Evangelicals deciding to be nice to gay people?

There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of Handel's Messiah.

We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We’d rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other.

The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or two up front on TV to obscure the all-white, all reactionary all backward — there-is-no-global-warming — rube reality. Actual conservatives, let alone the educated classes, have long since fled.

We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father.