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August 31 2008

c3o
00:26
I’d rather be me, right now, right here, than any other human —emperor, king, sultan, noble, philosopher, artist, scientist, genius,...— from any time before, any place. We have been humans for some 15 thousands years and there’s no time past I’d rather be at.

I don’t mean this as some outburst of excitement, it’s just a calm realization that dawned on me a while ago, out of the blue—a surprising measure of the reality of progress, the splendor of the present, the promise of the future.
elzr: I'd rather