# Age Alone Has Never Made an Idea True by Bryant McGill > “Tradition deserves respect, but age alone has never made an idea true.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *Authorship of the West, September 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Author-supplied exact original:** “Tradition deserves respect, but age alone has never made an idea true.” — supplied directly by Bryant McGill in his manuscript for [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] (September 22, 2026). - **Source article:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] — the sentence appears in the article's rejection of both worship and annihilation of inheritance, closing on the warning that a civilization unable to distinguish inheritance from truth becomes a museum guarding its own mistakes. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] - **Article:** [[articles/How Europe's Refuse Built the Apex Civilization Called America|How Europe's Refuse Built the Apex Civilization Called America]] - **Article:** [[articles/Kybernetik Anthropology and The Colonial Architecture of Digital Intelligence|Kybernetik Anthropology and The Colonial Architecture of Digital Intelligence]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Recursive Self-Correction|Recursive Self-Correction]] - [[wiki/Inheritance|Inheritance]] - [[wiki/Useful Imperial Inheritance|Useful Imperial Inheritance]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Tradition deserves respect, but age alone has never made an idea true.” — Bryant McGill, Authorship of the West, September 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-bryant-mcgill-age-never-made-idea-true ```