I was a teenager in the ‘60’s when Bob Dylan decided that the times were changing. I believed him. I thought my generation was going to make everything different. I suppose I was right to some extent: things are worse now.
Bob Dylan put it this way:
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
And don’t criticize what you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your commandYour old road is rapidly aging
Bishop Susan Bell, having fallen under the spell of Greta Thunburg, says much the same thing. The Bishop is old enough to know better and, unlike, I suspect, Bob Dylan, believes the tripe she is peddling.
Here is the earnest Greta giving an impassioned – nay, hysterical – theatrical diatribe demonstrating the veracity of Ecclesiastes 1:9:
What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It has been already in the ages before us.