Make the future wasteland better.

My wife and I were using metaphors to discuss gender roles and having children at lunch today (on the background of competing cultural fairy tale/religious figures ... which arguably encode wisdom about such things).

We largely framed women as gatekeepers (or liminal deities), standing between the current generation (the current wasteland) and the next generation (the next wasteland). Anyway, I think culturally we've abandoned the gates (men don't line up at them and women don't guard over them) and instead we tend to ourselves in the current wasteland.

I like to think about the future wasteland.