re: #131 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

If at all.

Future inhabitants of this continent will wonder about their past and have to believe something. I suspect the widespread, often inaccurate, beliefs about the American revolution today will linger in the common memory. How they will morph is the question.

We humans, being the religious things we are, will somehow deify the whole thing. Heck, we already do that (Mormons, some wingnut fundamentalists, etc.)

This idea was briefly explored, IIRC, in A Canticle for Leibowitz. But that was set too close to the present. In the deeper future, when the languages have morphed beyond recognition, if say Mount Rushmore survives in some form, even damaged, legends will be needed to describe it. And Hoover Dam, and the other monumental works that will outlive our own society and nation.