where did the future go?
From the about
page of the longnow foundation comes a gem:
"When I was a child, people used to talk about what would happen by the year 2000. For the next thirty years they kept talking about what would happen by the year 2000, and now no one mentions a future date at all. The future has been shrinking by one year per year for my entire life.[...]"
That sounds so true to me, it resonates in my soul. Maybe it's the opportunity for the next generation to create a new dream of the future. I don't see a concept of it among people my own age. At least nothing which expresses itself in society
, whatever that is.
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