Them
What will they be like, a hundred years from now? Looking back on us with a smirk, us and all our modern pretensions. What will go through their minds when they read our literature, our holy books, our lives – like sport to them, as it was to us, or will humanity change and overwhelm?
Because I can’t help but wonder if our habits will apply to them, or if they will overcome them. Or if, more likely, they will take the worst of humanity and set it spinning to excess. We all know the tales and the precedents…
What will they be like, a hundred years from now? Looking back on us with a smirk, us and all our modern pretensions. What will go through their minds when they read our literature, our holy books, our lives – like sport to them, as it was to us, or will humanity change and overwhelm?
Because I can’t help but wonder if our habits will apply to them, or if they will overcome them. Or if, more likely, they will take the worst of humanity and set it spinning to excess. We all know the tales and the precedents…
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