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I had extraordinary dreams and an ordinary mind.
It is a supremely cruel thing to have your mind conjure a desire which it is functionally unable to realize.
We were a monstrous, thoughtful, selfish, sensitive, fearful, ambitious, loving, hateful, hopeful species. We contained within us the potential for great evil, but also for great good. And we were capable of so much more than this.
In the absence of compassion, selfishness is the most rational response of all.
