Who's Gonna, Like, Replace all the Politicians and Priests and Soldiers When the People In Charge of the World Die?
A thought experiment in posterity's destiny
Allow me an infantile, impossible consideration.
When you were 12 or so, did you ever catch yourself wondering who in the world could possibly qualify as president material from your generation? How about priests? How about CIA? Ambassador to China?
Well it's seeming less and less like those intuitions were crazy because no one is qualified to do them.
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