# The Fight of Our Lifetime: Past against Future

**Published by:** [Continuations](https://continuations.com/)
**Published on:** 2017-01-17
**Categories:** past, future
**URL:** https://continuations.com/the-fight-of-our-lifetime-past-against-future

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Many of the people in power or currently grabbing for it are trying to maintain the recent past or even go back further. This is the fight of our lifetime. The Past against the Future. It is NOT: left against right, rich against poor, black against white, Islam against Christianity, men against women. Do not let yourself get dragged into these fights, that for now just serve to keep us in the past. Yes, there are vast injustices in the world that need to be addressed, but if we get stuck in the past we will have no chance of ever doing so. The past wants: less innovation, less automation, less science, less tolerance, less diversity, less democracy, less transparency, more nationalism, more fear, more greed The future needs: more innovation, more automation, more science, more tolerance, more diversity, more democracy, less nationalism, less fear, less greed The past scarcities were: food, land, capital. The future scarcity is: attention. Do not live in the past. Do not enable people who want to take us back further into the past. Fight for the future! PS. My thoughts on a possible path for the transition to a World After Capital.

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