Antiques

You have friends, Paullus, just like your pictures and vases, all antique originals.

~ Marcus Aurelius

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Old things are cool.  They have history.  They carry stories.  They connect past and present.  Old people are cool, too.  They have history.  They carry stories.  The connect past and present.  Society frowns on cooping a bunch of old people up in a building, though.

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Or at least society should frown on that.  Truth be told, society ought to do a lot more than simply frown on something like that.  Maybe that's the problem with society - too much frowning not enough doing.

Maybe it wouldn't be so bad to keep oldsters in a building somewhere.  A nice building.  With nice grounds.  And then younger people and world leaders could visit to get information about the past to better inform the present and the future.  Kind of like a human information depository (H.I.D.).

Of course some oldsters wouldn't reflect the past accurately.  Instead of keeping them in the H.I.D., we would have to keep them in an oldster liebrary.

Oh, and happy birthday dad.  This post has nothing to do with either your age or where Mom and Kirk and Erik are talking about storing you.