Tradition. Tradition!

So yesterday at the British Museum, my mind was blown by just how long the Egyptians had their empire(s) going, and how long they kept up the mummification and tomb building thing. Present day society is dwarfed by that kind of endeavor, I thought to myself. But then today, I visited Westminster Abbey, and it sank in that we ("Western Civilization") are also on an historic roll, and building pretty tombs to prove it. It's not too shabby to have 900 years of religious, political, and artistic leaders buried under a series of giant stone archways. But then don't get me started on America. Not quite sure which heroes or monuments we're building up for the next millenia's archaeologists to dig up (assuming we're not ringing in the end of humanity, of course).