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www.storyofstuff.com

(mined from dailykos.com)

the more i learn, the more evidence i have man lives in blissful ignorance. it is not that we get it wrong, it is we do not want to get it right. we all love our fairy tales, our games, our philosophies, our supreme self-indulgance so that we can spend a lifetime hiding from our cowardly nature.

My generation, I suspect, might be the last human generation in either a very good way (we will transcend our limitations, we will live incredibly long lives, we will expand our moral imaginations, and in the process we will become something better than human) or in a very bad way (we will all be killed by nanite goo/ourselves). So I hate the thought of any one of us biting the dust and missing the adventure to come, though of course that is as it must be.

-Reihan Salam on Heath Ledgers death.