Who is us?
Us is a nice people, a clean people, a pretty people. And us is. I think us breeds for those. (Fortunately, us can't tell. We have to wait for archaeologists or at least anthropologists to get some perspective on us and our behavior to guess whether we do. But consider a current amateur anthropologist's verdict: we seem to.) But mainly us breeds for lying. Most of us is pretty good at it, and some of us is outstanding. Us tells ourselves us is peaceful, kind, loving, gentle, thoughtful, et cetera. But deep down us knows = I think us does - each of those holds a nugget or kernel of truth exploded into a lie. When us studies history, what does us study? States. Wars. Empires. Religions - which mean pogroms, tortures, burnings at stakes, "civil" wars, slavery, annihilations, all that good, kind, merciful, loving stuff. Us may be nice, clean, pretty, but that's not the record us leaves behind!
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