# Time rebels Philosopher Roman Krznaric wrote the book The Good Ancestor to promote long-term thinking. He labels this capacity the "acorn brain", referring to our first ancestor, living in the early Neolithic period around 12,000 years ago, who decided to plant an acorn instead of eating it, thus kicking off the agricultural revolution. He identifies this moment as the symbolic birth of long-term thinking. Krznaric accuses our current civilization of doing the opposite, colonising the future for the sake of short-term gain. We treat the future as devoid of people, dumping our ecological degradation, technological risk, and other forms of waste onto it. He sees the current struggle as a tug of war for time, a contest of ideas between 2 competing worldviews, as represented by the following graphic: ![[Tug of War for Time]] He calls those who are trying to lay the foundations for a Long Now Civilization "time rebels". At Imaginal Seeds, we aspire to be time rebels who are working on the core capacities needed to sustain long-term thinking: Deep Time Humility, a Legacy Mindset, Intergenerational Justice, Cathedral Thinking, Holistic Forecasting, and Transcendent Goals.