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“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes”*

 – Andy Warhol, program for a 1968 exhibition of his work at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Have you ever wondered how future generations will look at us?

Experience suggests their judgment will be grim. Not because of anything we did or didn’t do, but simply because feeling superior to your ancestors is as American as a caramel macchiato.

Consider how unkindly we view past generations – if future generations hold as much distain for us as we hold for our ancestors, it will be deserved. Pride, inevitably, is punished.

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