Deepity du jour

I dropped into PCC Market this afternoon to get a loaf of bread and saw they had some sort of motto board in the little cafe area. I was curious to see what the current deepity was so I looked. It goes like this:

The future is coming this way.

Let us go out to meet it.

And then the author’s name, which I didn’t write down and don’t remember.

But: what??? That’s such wisdom it’s worth finding the alphabet blocks and pinning them on the board?

The future is the future; you don’t say!

Let’s go out to meet it??? I don’t want to be harsh but there’s no need to summon or advise us to meet it, because we have zero choice in the matter. Tomorrow is tomorrow whether we “go out to meet it” or stay in bed with pillows over our faces.

And if we did have choice in the matter – well hey, maybe going out to meet it is a shit idea. It will be just more Trump, and global warming, and children dying of measles, and pangolins gone forever. Let’s not go out to meet it, let’s go back and fix our mistakes.

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