Throw light
Via story we can use the past to throw light upon the generations to come.
:- Doug.

I can’t give you, elder, the insights you’ll need: I can act to be steel to your flint.
:- Doug.
If we’re to story of or for the generations, we’ll need to do the hard work to research them. Yes, you can research the future’s unborn: in your imagination and intellect; in what others have written; in your memories.
:- Doug.