It was W.B. Yeats, after the first world war, who wrote his poem that contained the phrase, ‘The centre cannot hold…’
He saw the grief of body, soul, and mind around him and lamented at the spirit of his age. We do not have a physical war on our shores at this stage, but is the spirit of our age moving towards being similarly de-centred?
I thought so, after recently watching Matt Cunningham’s documentary about the Voice on Sky News Australia.
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