367- The End of an Era from Morocco to the UK to Texas (Free)

Look around this world right now. Are we seeing what happens at the end of every age or era? Does the entire deck get shuffled every 2,160 years – give or take? If this is true it would go a long way toward explaining why our history and culture seems to begin within the last couple thousand years – give or take. Our guest brings us a point of view from a life lived in Morocco and Islam in his younger years – then England and then the US. For me the importance of such a conversation is well represented in an old Mark Twain (we are told) quote: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” These words convey a critical idea that I accept as correct from personal experience. Every man and woman are truly my brother and sister, and yet, the current climate of this realm is working to destroy such truths in the minds of the many. In closing a quote from TV near the end of our era – “And now for something completely different.”