What would he do?

After 7 years, my friend Chris Klotschkow moved away. He got an incredible offer to move to Raleigh, North Carolina, and I wish him well. One night, many years ago, Chris and I got into an argument. I proposed coining an acronym (can you coin them?), “WWBD” was my suggestion for an alternate to “WWJD“. Initially he saw the humor but we devolved when I posited that in some possible future, the possible accumulation of artifacts relating to “him” are so many and so diverse that it might be assumed he existed at one point, maybe even taught in history classes, enough even then to produce a following? We fought over breakfast at the Village Inn about it, and walked away friends. He thought it utterly impossible that in spite of any future (not even something like Beneath the Planet of the Apes, y’know, where the mutants live underground and worship the warhead?) no one would ever: A) Believe that Batman was real, or B) That a past civilization worshipped some demagogue of justice…”Yes, and in the late 20th century, the canon of monotheistic hosts worshipped by that era’s peoples included Jesus, Buddha, Vishnu, Mohammad, Elvis, Brahman, Yahweh, and someone named Batman…”

Nuh-uh, Didn’t happen, No way- Chris is one of the greatest debaters I know- even if he’ll never admit I’m right.