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“The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.”
― John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich

“I think you’re wrong,�� she said. “I don’t think humans were supposed to die out during the Infection. And I think those of us who survived have a duty to protect the next generation. We’re starting over, Justin. We’re rebuilding the world. And this time, we’re going to make it even better.�� ~ Carly Daniels”
― Lissa Bryan, The End of All Things

“In 1962 the president of the American Historical Association, Carl Bridenbaugh, warned his colleagues that human existence was undergoing a “Great Mutation”—so sudden and so radical “that we are now suffering something like historical amnesia.�� He lamented the decline of reading; the distancing from nature (which he blamed in part on “ugly yellow Kodak boxes�� and “the transistor radio everywhere��); and the loss of shared culture.”
― James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood