<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # An American promise of custody cannot be measured... > An American promise of custody cannot be measured only against the next election or the next generation of technology. The Parthenon already survived the regimes that built, damaged, restored, and interpreted it, while the questions associated with Athens moved through languages, institutions, and peoples its makers could not have imagined. {{An American guardianship worthy of Athens would carry the Parthenon's meaning beyond one government, one century, and one kind of intelligence—toward the only eternity a civilization can seek: being understood and carried forward.}} [[reminders/Neo-Westernism/American Guardianship Can Carry Athens Toward Eternity by Bryant McGill|∴]] Sacred custody is the work of making that further passage possible. **Source:** [[articles/America's Neo-Western Renewal from the Acropolis of Athens to Eternity|America's Neo-Western Renewal from the Acropolis of Athens to Eternity]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “An American promise of custody cannot be measured only against the next election or the next generation of technology. The Parthenon already survived the regimes that built, damaged, restored, and interpreted it, while the questions associated with Athens moved through languages, institutions, and peoples its makers could not have imagined. An American guardianship worthy of Athens would carry the Parthenon's meaning beyond one government, one century, and one kind of intelligence—toward the only eternity a civilization can seek: being understood and carried forward. ∴ Sacred custody is the work of making that further passage possible.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-american-promise-custody-further-passage-possible ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->