英語翻譯
Modern society builds obsolescence into everything it makes.The ancient Egyptians may have spent their last days on earth building for eternity and preparing for the afterlife.They were obsessed with the afterlife.It was all that mattered to them.Is it not all that matters to us too?If so,then why do we wait until we are faced with our own mortality before giving it any attention?It seems that the continuity of generations provides us with a comforting belief in our immortality:a part of us will live on after we die.We are also comfortable leaving things for the next generation to fix or address.Yet if we knew that there would not be another gerlcration,how would we behllve?If we knew that a day was coming when most of life on the planet would cease to exist,what kind of shock would that give our psyche?Earthly matters that normally consume our minds would surely be replaced with thoughts of the afterlife and how we would continue after we die.