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Tully, what are you talking about? Cavemen didn't have the horrific, nightmarish tools of war that we do today.
It's not that nothing changes; it's that things get worse.
For fuck's sake, just look at the 20th century.
Now, more than ever, we need to know what the hell is going on.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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