Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder.

Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it.

Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder.

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

I am the bridge between the bleeding edge and the dead center. I stand between the Wizard of Oz and the man behind the curtain. I am the curtain.

Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and limited resources.

You are. I'm just fatalistically cheerful. We all come into the story halfway through, we all catch up as best we can, and we're all gonna die before it ends.