tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184575347466163757.post4642447927829810741..comments2023-07-03T08:51:01.209-05:00Comments on What Powderfinger Said . . . Observations on Life in the Dying Empire: And Then There's This . . .Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111660094586126379noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184575347466163757.post-34638152022781777092010-02-11T12:47:11.132-06:002010-02-11T12:47:11.132-06:00That presumes that the future holds something othe...That presumes that the future holds something other than the post-apocalypse wasteland so favored by sf writers. I'm thinking that our civilization may eventually be hazily remembered as some sort of mythological place by our distant hirsute progeny as they squat around the rubbish fires. Perhaps some moral tribal memory will attend this dismal scene or perhaps morality will be something unfinished still in the process of being rebuilt.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00111660094586126379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184575347466163757.post-7808633027397647512010-02-11T05:36:09.472-06:002010-02-11T05:36:09.472-06:00On the bright side, think how much fun it will be ...On the bright side, think how much fun it will be to be a moral story for the future to use for teaching their children - a Tower of Babel story, where all the blessings were squandered and destroyed.Montaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00017648070522030951noreply@blogger.com