A lot of blessings we enjoyed, we've come to see, were not just the natural state of things. They were, rather, the benefits of a cultural edifice it took generations of hard work to construct. And while buildings often need renovation, they also need to be maintained well or they will fall apart.
Maybe it's witnessing how things can fall apart that makes age more conservative than youth. It's like in the movies: whenever a character says, "Things can't get any worse," it turns out they can.
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