Lewis All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come. I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. It's all love or sex these days.
Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity.
Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.