I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's totally appropriate to be anxious about the future of things you care about, especially in a shifting world. But I've every expectation that literature will continue to exist.
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.
I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.
Prophecy is what we all have to go by now.
If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if we as a society aren't careful.