# The Future Will Know Us Through What We Refuse to Forget by Bryant McGill > “The future will know us through what we preserve, what we explain, what we admit, and what we refuse to forget.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *Authorship of the West, September 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Author-supplied exact original:** “The future will know us through what we preserve, what we explain, what we admit, and what we refuse to forget.” — supplied directly by Bryant McGill in his manuscript for [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] (September 22, 2026). - **Source article:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] — the sentence appears in the article's argument that the machine archive should inherit the triumphs and the indictments of the West together; the sentence recurs as the article's final quotation. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] - **Article:** [[articles/How Europe's Refuse Built the Apex Civilization Called America|How Europe's Refuse Built the Apex Civilization Called America]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] - [[wiki/Historical Responsibility|Historical Responsibility]] - [[wiki/Records Knowledge and Memory Across Generations|Records Knowledge and Memory Across Generations]] - [[wiki/Semantic Preservation|Semantic Preservation]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The future will know us through what we preserve, what we explain, what we admit, and what we refuse to forget.” — Bryant McGill, Authorship of the West, September 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-bryant-mcgill-what-we-refuse-to-forget ```