If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.
如果我们能提供的唯一的新东西是过去的改进版本，那么今天只能比昨天差。被过去的景象所催眠，我们可能会失去所有创造改变的能力。