“Who’s to say you haven’t been on the path this whole time, Ben? Huh? Don’t you find it remarkable that you were born into such a wondrous time in history? The most advanced technological civilization in the history of the universe. The richest country in that civilization. The most advanced species on that lucky little planet of yours. You could have been a microbe, Ben: a tiny, insignificant, single-cell animal that lives for a day and no longer. Or you could have been a crab, hmm? But no: You were a person, with a cute wife and three lovely kids. Born a man, and a white man at that. Never
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