"There's no hope for the future." And that's how they felt during the Atomic Age, during the World Wars, during the Enlightenment Revolutions, during thr plagues, during the Viking raids, during the fall of Rome.
Yet, we persisted.
CS Lewis had something to say about this
I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and this CS Lewis quote really helped crystalize my thoughts, so thank you.
I have seen so many people say things along the lines of "the world is ending and I'm just making dinner." As though making dinner is somehow a moral failing because they ought to be out doing something else.
But like, I think making dinner during frightening world upheaval is kind of the point? Maybe that's what it means to be human? To make dinner and talk to your friends and create art and go to work. That's life. You can't just stop doing people things because the world is big and frightening.
