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At the very bottom of every one of us scurries a frightened animal. Bundle of unthinking expressive instincts. Its exertions play their part all the way to the top. The top prefers not to acknowledge this, giving the animal all the more leeway to express its instincts. The top prefers castles in the air, illusions of control, delusions of grandeur, and other empty vanities. Well, we all want to be able to think we're gonna eat a hot dinner every night for the rest of our long, perhaps endless lives.

Being human is no sin. What else should we expect ourselves to be? The more human we realize we are, perhaps the more human we will become. No use writing a program for it, in my opinion. Time will pass, and we will see what we make of ourselves. The river is full of opposing forces, but in the end, it all flows the same way.

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Some say it's all coming down, and some say it's just firing up. This has been true for every society, through all recorded history. People, sane and deluded, educated and untutored, wise and foolish, say both of these things. Both of their predictions come true. The river flows. 

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It's ok to take the long view. Fuck 'em if they tell you no. 

--JL