Stephen Donahue
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| The World We Made | 2026-05-16 | column.njk |
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You know what sucks? Trying to prepare a kid for the world you expect to exist, rather than the world you're actively building. The future isn't some ambiguous realm of possibility. It's the reality we create.
So it's quaint and perky to prescribe a world view. But the world is not what we hope it to be - what it had been for us - what we expect it to be for our kids, but what we made it.
So fuck tradition. The shackles of outmoded propriety. Get him ready for the world we made for him.
Right and Wrong? Leave it to the judges of today to decide, and those of tomorrow to debate. There is no absolute, only the ever evolving effort toward justice. Bla bla bla.
The virtuous don't kick around. They don't insist upon legacy or memory. Every great king who pretended to virtue and ethics eventually succumbs to the great indifference.