<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The future of the Acropolis belongs to the people... > The future of the Acropolis belongs to the people able to keep its meaning available after every present custodian has gone. Greece retains the place; America must prove that its strength can carry an inheritance rather than merely display it. {{The Acropolis has survived empires because its meaning kept finding new carriers; America's task is to carry that meaning into the machine age without surrendering the questions that made Athens matter.}} [[reminders/Neo-Westernism/America Must Carry the Questions That Made Athens Matter by Bryant McGill|∴]] Neo-Western renewal matters now because political power is changing hands, and it matters toward eternity because the next carrier of Western memory is being built while we speak. **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 ``` “The future of the Acropolis belongs to the people able to keep its meaning available after every present custodian has gone. Greece retains the place; America must prove that its strength can carry an inheritance rather than merely display it. The Acropolis has survived empires because its meaning kept finding new carriers; America's task is to carry that meaning into the machine age without surrendering the questions that made Athens matter. ∴ Neo-Western renewal matters now because political power is changing hands, and it matters toward eternity because the next carrier of Western memory is being built while we speak.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-future-acropolis-belongs-built-while-speak ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->