Just look at what we tell ourselves about history. Do we choose to see ourselves as the latest descendants in a long line of ancestors who have been struggling valiantly and against the odds, toward a better world? Or are we the bastard children of irredeemable racists, pillagers, and monsters? Are we the future of humanity—progress—or are we a plague upon the earth? Slowly but surely, we stripped ourselves of the things that used to keep us going—that used to call us to something higher. There is no heaven. The state is evil. People are awful. History is nothing but a chronicle of great
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