Facing the Precipice of History - Chanden Climaco
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It takes a bit of boldness, and probably a dash of arrogance, to think, “The time I’m living in is special.”
It takes a bit of boldness, and probably a dash of arrogance, to think, “The time I’m living in is special.” Nearly everyone who ever thought such a thing would be wrong. Certainly, each life was still rich with meaning: love found and lost, purpose sought, years peppered with joy and sadness. But for the 300,000 years we have been around, besides a handful of critical centuries, humanity has merely plodded along. The majority of people exited a world that looked, more or less, like the one they came into. But not you. You are living through one of those special times in history. And I…
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