Our day is not past, we will say to our children. We are vital, productive members of society. We are not done yet. We are important still.
You are irrelevant, they will tell us. You are useless, parasitic hangers-on. You are finished. You were born in the twentieth century.
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And then they will walk away.
Jeremy N. Smith '00 is a history and literature concentrator in Pforzheimer House. His column appears on alternate Fridays.