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into a deep melancholy thinking of what lay ahead for my descendents. Kira and I, and other people our age, had lived through the start of the most terrible and complete decimation of the human race that could have been imagined. Gone were the comforts and conveniences we'd grown accustomed to and taken for granted. All forms of power production and global manufacturing were obliterated. Every item of manufactured goods depended on a worldwide network of sophisticated science, engineering and technology that were the culmination of centuries of knowledge gained through individual successes and failures. Every new measure of advancement depended on past trial and error until a new miniscule step was possible. Then successful step upon step led to chains of discoveries over decades and centuries.

The decline civilization has begun will continue for several hundred years until a base point is reached. Not being a learned historian, I guess that will equate to about the fifteenth century. From that point, mankind will begin the slow and sometimes painfully arduous process of applying small bits of available knowledge to achieve new and exciting milestones.

But manmade pitfalls will most likely be imposed along the way. Religion will once again rear its ugly head, and anyone possessing images of twenty-first century wonders we'd taken for granted will be condemned as heretics; they'll be seen as disciples of the devil to be stoned to death or burned at the stake. Kira spent countless hours at a computer printing images of airplanes, ships, rockets, marvelous buildings, the earth from outer space and a multitude of other accomplishments of our world that will likely be interrupted as evil in a dystopian time. Books or papers from civilization's peak will be destroyed and the people possessing them will be sacrificed.

When it can go no lower, mankind will either cease to exist or strive to advance once again. Will mankind ever achieve the greatness destroyed fifteen years ago? I can only hope future generations will rise to the challenge and do it all over again, or our painful struggles will have been for naught.

The End

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