The Most Sinister Of All Our Present Illusions
By DONALD DeMARCO Ambrose Bierce, noted for his cynical aphorisms, once asked why he should do anything for posterity since posterity never did anything for him. As Molly of old time radio would say to her usually misguided husband, “It ain’t funny, McGee.” There was a time when posterity preceded the likes of Ambrose Bierce. He is the beneficiary of an earlier time when people made their contribution to posterity. The past is prologue to the future. None of us can be isolated from the sweep of time. Two Boston College feminist authors have advised that a good mate would be a man who has vasectomy scars and a deceased mother. Whether or not this duo was trying to be…Continue Reading