Thanks for the clarification, G. SOrry if I was a bit brusque.

we are just one big morass of warring and killing

Well, do we wish to continue as such? Or is there such as thing as improving human life?

I suggest that better social designs, better reciprocal understanding and dialogue, and better technology can move civilization to better conditions. Conditions do not have to be endlessly bestial and barbaric. Apathy about the past is a weak excuse to surrender the future.

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