Today and Tomorrow

Abstract

We live in a rapidly changing world, but I think it is often easy for literate people to exaggerate the extent of the actual changes that have taken place. One reads about test-tube babies, and one has already mentally scrapped the image of all the pregnant women from the world. Because a majority of the intelligentsia has dismissed religion we tend to forget that there is still a hangover of religious morality, and that a large majority of people still subscribe to religious ceremonial when it comes to birth, marriage and death. We read so much about ‘the permissive society’ nowadays that we tend to forget that, if society were really that permissive, no one would be writing or reading about it.