A Contest

The Spectrum is offering a contest.

OK, so we got another contest for you! One of the themes in 9 is carrying on the spark of humanity in a post-apocalyptic future. Tell us what you think is the most important part of our world that should be carried on as our legacy and why. We will choose the one we like best and award the winner a pair of passes and a 9 movie poster! You can email submissions to info@spectrum8.com with 9 as the subject. Good luck!

If something were to survive humanity, what would I want it to be?

What best represents us as a species?  Art?  Would a piece of music that means something to me mean as much to the next big thing on this planet?  What about a book?  Something transcendental to me (Shakespeare for instance), would that translate to some creature that may not understand the pathos of love, loss, and dying?

So, what would I want to leave to posterity?

What best exemplifies the best of humanity and what we had to offer?

After thinking about this...

I leave these words...

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.