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via the telegraph

 

It is more that I feel lost. Oh, I understand that nostalgia is a tired and anxious emotion that accomplishes little - but it is more than that. It is more a feeling of loss, for what we are losing that will not be replaced. It is a common feeling, now - that what is coming is not going to be better than what came before. That we will need to be great and innovative and thoughtful and empathetic and we are not up to the challenge. That we are unwilling or unable to experiment with greatness the way that those before us did. It is that we seem able to idolize but not to emulate. It is that we are willing to take a lot and give a little, and that we long for the glory without the effort, the angst without the output. It is hard to imagine the way our generation will remember its heroes, and even harder to imagine what will be diefied after we are gone. I dread to think that it will not take much - that we will be just as cluttered in death as we were in life.