Dear Posterity,
You Modern and Postmodern Readers are nothing to me. Pass me by as I pass you by, in mutual contempt. Complaisant grownups of a corrupt age, your children and grandchildren will live among the ruins. My words are addressed to you, Princes and Princesses of Posterity, to whom all Lasting Legacies are devoted. Gifthub is a work of Art in the Augustan Tradition, part Sermon, part Satire, and altogether Immortal. My Legacy is Inspired by a long line of World Class Fools, not least of whom are Diogenes and The Happy Tutor, two distinguished Dumpster Dwellers who, in various guises have provided pro bono moral instruction to the World's Mightiest Knaves.
You who live on in the future, forgive us. When the time came for my generation to rise against corruption, and lies in high places, they were timorous, silent and fawning. They spoke of the Market and of Freedom while the ecosystems and democratic traditions died around them. Forgive us for the world we left you, our lasting legacy of shame. Know that a few of us raised our voices to no purpose. Forgive, children, your parents who failed you so miserably. Heirs to sorrow! Here is your bitter legacy, the sins of the Fathers visited unto you unto countless generations. May your suffering expiate our sins.
Phil Cubeta
Morals Tutor to America's Wealthiest Families
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