The premise from me has always been that human beings are not shit regardless of how many view us that way.
It was in the post just above my last one.
Through all the horrible times humanity has suffered at our own hands we still got better. Still learned, grew and progressed.
Every new thought and creation from the time of the cave has been seen by the blind and malevolent as a horror, yet they never are. Nuclear energy and weapons and mutually assured destruction ring a bell to anyone?
We are the creators of everything which serves to further our lives, each of us individually.
Every step of the way it's those of use who think so many horribly poorly about man's nature who suffer the most. It's they who fight against every new thought, every creation making our progress all that much more difficult.
It's that kind of thinking that ought to be a self fulfilling prophecy. Say it enough and surround everyone with such a thought and it is fully within the realm of possibility that mankind will believe it and destroy ourselves.
But we don't, consider the why of it.
Just one of the myriad of moments in our history, just one with regional and emotional ties for us here.
This is not an exception, it's the rule found in humanitys unique existence, our nature as volitional rational beings. Volitional meaning by choice.
"Despite the prognostications of doom, the Patriots have shown up and will take the field."
Gil Santos, 2001 AFC Championship Pregame
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