I don’t know that my knowledge of history is broad enough to understand all the ins-and-outs of it, but the reality of living in 2016 is that we live in a historic anomaly. To live in a time and place where you don’t have to look over your shoulder either for something coming to ruin your subsistence-farming existence or for someone coming to fight you, your city, your country, your continent, is tremendously unusual. Like, very short periods of time throughout history.
I’m thankful.