Who is us?
Ah, Pogo! Who *is* us?
Us is a beautiful people admiring our own naivete. Us is a people admiring our own gentleness while we hurl grenades and fire machine guns. Us is a people smug about having abolished slavery in 1865 while hosting an estimated 417,500 slaves in 2021, 80% of them women and children. ("If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.") Us is a people who refuse to learn science or logic, too hard, besides we got "makes sense" and "works for me!" Us is a nice people, us is! Mostly! Us just needs laws against rape and murder and tormenting each other, and occasionally, us even has to enforce them. Darn. Us is what's left after evolution tried a lot of experiments, so us is the cream of the crop, right? Us is the best? All these characteristics is how us got here, and how us is gonna stay, isn't us?
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