Yeah, that’s why I said it addressed this point “among others”—my summary of the poem’s message would be something like “There are timeless principles of morality and common sense that are fundamentally true; when what’s fundamentally true becomes unfashionable and people believe what’s popular or sounds good instead, disaster ultimately ensues.”
My post refers primarily to the second part of that message (beliefs are for true things, reject this at your peril) rather than the first part.
Yeah, that’s why I said it addressed this point “among others”—my summary of the poem’s message would be something like “There are timeless principles of morality and common sense that are fundamentally true; when what’s fundamentally true becomes unfashionable and people believe what’s popular or sounds good instead, disaster ultimately ensues.”
My post refers primarily to the second part of that message (beliefs are for true things, reject this at your peril) rather than the first part.