If I am to discuss what is wrong, one of the first
things that are wrong is this: the deep and silent modern assumption that past
things have become impossible. There is one metaphor of which the moderns are
very fond; they are always saying, "You can't put the clock back."
The simple and obvious answer is "You can." A clock, being a piece of
human construction, can be restored by the human finger to any figure or hour.
In the same way society, being a piece of human construction, can be
reconstructed upon any plan that has ever existed.
G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong With The World
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