vision from which they derive.
But that is not the point, for even as the leaves of western civilisation fall to the ground, seeds
are being set into our collective psyche.
A ‘layer’ lives on, deep inside us – and surges up, (particularly at times of crisis), to challenge ‘who it is we think we are’, and to pose us a ‘life-choice’. It directs us to the fork in the road. It is, in short, not a matter of ‘returning to the past’, but of connecting us to almost-lost memories that suddenly catch new flame from greying, dust-covered embers, as fresh air streams across them.
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Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum.