It shows moral arrogance to pass a breathtakingly severe judgment on your forebears and fail to imagine that your descendants won't do the same to you.
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Jason Peters is Professor of English at Augustana College (IL). He is the editor of Wendell Berry: Life and Work (Kentucky), Land! The Case for an Agrarian Economy, by John Crowe Ransom (Notre Dame), and co-editor of Localism in the Mass Age (FPR Books). His most recent book is The Culinary Plagiarist: (Mis)Adventures of a Lusty, Thieving, God-Fearing Gourmand (FPR Books). He is also the editor of the journal Local Culture.