Dear Future, Here’s the One Lesson I Want to Pass on to You
Think pieces were happily guessing about the generation of kids who would be raised in a post-Carl world and how their perspectives on everything from employment to brand-name toothpaste would be different. And who knows, maybe they would be, but New York
Hank Green • A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor: A Novel (The Carls Book 2)
there is one thing we can draw from where we are now and where we were then, it is that the unimaginable is ordinary, that the way forward is almost never a straight line you can glance down but a convoluted path of surprises, gifts, and afflictions you prepare for by accepting your blind spots as well as your intuitions.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Only the future can tell. But we need to mend our ways. Otherwise, nihilism will win and we will deconstruct ourselves into oblivion. Maybe this is will be the million dollar question of the next century. What do we do, when we do not have to do anything?
refinement | llct
I’ll admit I weighed in my hand, for a moment, like a shiny apple. It sounded like a decent “wartime” wish, war being the analogy he’s chosen to use. But no one in 1945 wished to return to the “old life,” to return to 1939—except to resurrect the dead. Disaster demanded a new dawn. Only new thinking can lead to a new dawn. We know that.