We are too stupid and egotistical and, ultimately, self-destructive to remember our mistakes and grow from them.
Re(dis)membered


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We are too stupid and egotistical and, ultimately, self-destructive to remember our mistakes and grow from them.

Knowledge is dour.

We are now weathered by the damning knowledge of years; by the shift from blind confidence to grim, pragmatic understanding. Now, we counter the disappointing and inevitable with doomed longing for all outcomes to defy the proof of experience despite our familiarity. In the past, in the blissful ignorance of youth, I always thought I [...]