No. I wasn't alive when a lot of things happened, and I won't be alive when a bunch of other hopefully cool stuff happens. And I don't believe enough in my own exceptionalism to think that I'd get to experience it in any more positive way than looking on from an increasingly dirty Earth and thinking, 'Wow that's cool!' I already get to do that.
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No. I wasn't alive when a lot of things happened, and I won't be alive when a bunch of other hopefully cool stuff happens. And I don't believe enough in my own exceptionalism to think that I'd get to experience it in any more positive way than looking on from an increasingly dirty Earth and thinking, 'Wow that's cool!' I already get to do that.