27. Our legacy
I am
becoming upset by our lack of care, as a generation, for our legacy. I am
frankly embarrassed by the fact that we will go down in history as the generation
that, faced with a global health crisis, rushed to the supermarkets to
accumulate toilet paper, pasta and flour. We have lost a huge opportunity. We
should have considered our legacy and the view that future historians will have
of us, and done something unexpected. Like, say, we should all have ordered several
copies each of ‘Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy’ or ‘The Divine Comedy’. Or of ‘Love
in the Time of Cholera’. Even better, all three. This would have kept future
historians entertained for centuries, in speculative admiration at this erudite,
unflappable generation. Granted, book pages, whatever the edition, can be a bit
rough on your backside, but is this not a price worth paying to go down in history
as an intellectually superior bunch who confronted adversity with literature?
We would be, in teenage parlance, legends
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