it’s a wonder that our cultural revolution ever took place. It really is a wonder. It wasn’t destiny, it wasn’t divinely ordained from the foundation of the universe, it wasn’t something that was just inevitably going to happen. It hadn’t happened in two hundred thousand years of people as smart as we are. It might not have happened in another two hundred thousand years—or in another million. It was a quirk, a fluke. Combine one never-before-seen cultural element with a second never-before-seen element, add a third just as odd, and you come up with a cultural monster that is literally
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