The future will have to wait (2006)
&gt; It’s only the world a hundred years on that leaves his hopes a blank. My son seems to take the end of everything, of all human endeavor and creation, for granted.<p>This is so sad. It is the purposeful breakdown of obligation and responsibility. After all &quot;Entitlement will thrive where there is a lack of obligation.&quot; And entitlement is the antithesis of responsibility.<p>&gt;  If you don’t believe in the Future, unreservedly and dreamingly, if you aren’t willing to bet that somebody will be there to cry when the Clock finally, ten thousand years from now, runs down, then I don’t see how you can have children. If you have children, I don’t see how you can fail to do everything in your power to ensure that you win your bet, and that they, and their grandchildren, and their grandchildren’s grandchildren, will inherit a world whose perfection can never be accomplished by creatures whose imagination for perfecting it is limitless and free.<p>This is the correct response that correctly recognizes each person&#x27;s personal responsibility and societal obligation.<p>We have a future should we choose it.<p>Keep your children away from death cults who would say otherwise.