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Ashes to ashes; dust to dust; most of us will be utterly forgotten within a generation or two, no matter what we do. Spending all our energy trying to avoid that fate is futile, it's not unreasonable to spend time living in the present.
I just categorically disagree that this logic holds as a means to not care about the future.
I can say, that if the records existed, I, personally would like to search my genetic ancestry back 1000 years (at least!) and learn a bit about every single human being whose genes ended up in my genome.
And, we pretty much have the necessary technology such that, in 1000 years, someone in the future could look up information about YOU and thereby 'remember' your existence well beyond 2 generations out.
And there are certainly things you can do now to bump up the odds that someone will remember you further out.
Yes, that doesn't 'matter' to you once you're dead, but taking this nihilist position doesn't give you any reason to prefer any outcome over any other!
So hey, I won't try and convince you that one outcome matters over the other. I'll continue working to marginally increase the chances that the outcomes I prefer come about. From your logic, it's no more a waste of time to do that than to live for the present.
In short, accepting that life is ephemeral is one thing, but choosing to live as though the future won't exist is, if you believe what I do, a COPE.
Anyhow, I leave you with some distilled Hopium: Isaac Asimov's 'The Last Question.'
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