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Why bother about foreseeing?
as I sat down — thinking of this moment
"let us eat drink + be merry"
Can't possibly tell what will happen
except — it will be utterly different
then useless to ask?
No, not to consider possibilities
fascinating, educative (emotionally)
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Degrees of futurity (for my purposes)
"near" — next 100 years Waterloo
middle — 1 — 10,000 yrs before Egypt
far — million yrs + onwards early man
Questions to ask about them
up down(of different orders)
pastnear — England a world power? Russia?
futfamily? education?
middle — coal, oil, subatomic?
huge cultural advance?
far — what will man be like? extinct?
will he be super-man?
