Let the Children Bury Us

From "The Denial," by Bruce Sterling, in the September issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction:

"It was almost a proverb. 'Let the children bury us.' There was a bliss to that, like a verse in a very old song. It meant that there were no decisions to make. The time was still unripe. Nothing useful could be done. Justice, faith, hope and charity, life and death, they were all smashed and in a muddle, far beyond his repair and retrieval . . . Let the next generation look after all of that. Or the generation after that. Or after that. Or after that."

Methinks of global warming. Trillion dollar deficits. Nuclear waste.