This elective blog post is, in fact, a shameless promotion of a project I’m running at another blog. Last week a friend of mine mentioned how crazy it would be if, after the supposedly impending apocalypse, a post-apocalyptic generation found a copy of The Hunger Games and thought it was a document about the way things were. This started the development of this project, which I refer to as “Dear Post-Apocalyptic Generation”.
The project consists of letters to this hypothetical future generation about things that we think they should find important or interesting about the pre-apocalyptic population. I feel like this project is especially relevant to this class. This week’s mini-assignment, for example, was to describe democracy to a politically-savvy relative. Imagine trying to explain politics, or democracy, or elections to a generation of people who had never heard of it.
Anyways, I do mention this project purely for the purpose of self-promotion. The link to the blog is generationpostapocalypse.wordpress.com, if any of you would like to check it out and maybe submit your own letter.
Awesome project! What if the post-apocalypse generation somehow managed to become superior beings by some sort of nuclear freak accident? (Sort of like what happened to Alex Mack in that 90’s television show).
Sorry it took so long to reply to this! Thanks so much for your comment – I loved Alex Mack as a kid. I hope someone writes in eventually about the possibility that this future generation may have X-Men-like superpowers.