The choices we (don't) make now have a major effect on future generations, but it still proves difficult to do the right thing with an eye to the future. The perspective we take today looks fifty years ahead at most. How do you transcend self-interest and serve the common good over time? In the sixth episode of Het Filosofisch Kwintet, Clairy Polak receives historian Philipp Blom, anthropologist Roanne van Voorst and the writers Arnon Grunberg and Dalilla Hermans.