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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Modern civilization has given ordinary human beings greater freedom, wealth, and dignity than any before it. It has empowered billions of people in all kinds of ways. If it collapses, and the new dark ages arrive, it will be because in our myopia, our internecine squabbles, and our petty rivalries, we lost sight of the fact that we are the heirs to the greatest tradition in history…”
— Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria
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