Let’s listen to one of my favorite bands, The Beths, out of New Zealand, with their 2018 hit, “Future Me Hates Me.” They opened with this last night in Columbus. What does it have to do with our course? Well, the distinction between me (today) and me (future) calls to mind the temporal shift of modernity explained by Benedict Anderson in his discussion of cosmology and history… Or, it’s just a bit of fun to get us going I the morning!