The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. And which values? Even when they do not panic, men often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of moral stasis.
To be a moral human being is to pay, be obliged to pay, certain kinds of attention.