We are doomed, doomed.

John Derbyshire writes in The Corner:

DECLINE OF WESTERN CIV
I have been dismayed and saddened at the number of readers who have written in to ask me who this Ancient Mariner was in my anecdote Thursday about Mrs Simpson. Oh Lord, don't they teach ANYTHING in school nowadays?

I guess Sam Coleridge had to make way for Maya Angelou. We are doomed, doomed. Very much like the Ancient Mariner.