esquire.com: Time capsules tell us a lot about what people in the past thought the future would be like. If you happen to be putting together a time capsule right now, please do not include this column.

All my life, I have wanted to stop time. I see almost no value in the future, and I suspect that virtually every technological advance since the advent of the gramophone has been — on balance — detrimental to the human race. Our slow erosion of authentic consciousness will never stop, and there is nothing we can do about it. [ read more ]