I am on the field.

[libberroo]

There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been: a people busy and powerful, knowledgeable, ambivalent, important, fearful and self aware; a people who scheme, promote, deceive, and conquer; who pray for their loved ones, and long to flee misery and

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[rhymingreason]

Annie Dillard said very eloquently (and specifically) something I've been thinking for a long time. One of my favorite people taught me to think that way. I'm actually really glad I'm alive right now, where I am. The world's a beautiful place. Previous generations were not more virtuous: we've just forgotten many of their sins. Just as, after an absence, we forget the faults of a friend, and remember only the joy they bring.