Legacy

How are we, as a society of intellectuals, going to insure, to protect, to preserve our legacy. I don't know if we can even decide what exactly that legacy is or should contain. We cannot predict the next dark age. It may be only months away, possibly millenia. When is not important. But how are we going to do this ... would it just be for ourselves? Even if it was, it would be a intellectually heroic move. We don't know the extent of what was lost in the Library of Alexandria.
Are we content to let all the achievements and failures, all the great leaps of mind of even faith, just wash away. Will we be content to take every lesson we painfully learned through warfare, through catastrophe to be wiped clean? It is not hope to think we will persevere forever. It is foolishness. We need to have the forethought to realize the future, thinking may be out. We may be reduced to animals, or we may be gone and some other animals are left to evolve in our place. There won't be time to ponder, or wonder or dream. Your days may be filled with the struggle to survive and your night spent in a sleep that borders between rest and paranoia. Now look around at the world today. What do we want to leave to the next sentients, whoever or whatever they call themselves. What is around today that's worth saving? Maybe we should move towards only those things that are essential and enriching. Fire, the wheel, poetry, math, religion, politics, fashion... etc? We have to stop this sillyness, because we are weakening, and don't realize it. The greatness of the humananity has come from compassion, communion, examining the physical world, and pondering great mystery of why it's all here. Let's move toward a society based on that. Not on pyramids of succession, not on attachments or apperances, or jugdements of each other.

-Shakabusatsu