Who is us?
Us is damned near almighty. Us've cured diseases, in some cases almost eradicated them. Us've hunted into near extinction animals that used to prey on us. Except ourselves, of course. Us've dammed mighty rivers, and damned those we couldn't dam. Us've turned almost limitless sources of fresh water into sewage ponds. Us've built highways that crisscrossed the Chinese Empire and the Persian Empire, the Roman Empire and the U.S. of A. Us've imagined ourselves rocketing about the universe like American families vacationed in the 1950s. Us've erected buildings us claimed scraped the sky. Us've triumphed over so many adversaries! But us can't seem to triumph over ourselves. Now, in the day of rockets, airplanes, ocean liners, and automobiles, us gets along with each other about as well as in the days us used bones for clubs.
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