“Those who believe that history is a progressive march toward human perfectibility no longer know what it is to be human. In the name of the highest virtues they sink to moral depravity. This self-delusion bedevils the modern age. It comes to us in many forms. It can be wrapped in the language of religion; atheism; a “master race”; Liberté égalité fraternité; the worker’s paradise; the idyllic agrarian society; the “new man”; science or reason. The jargon is varied. The dark sentiment is the same.”
Chris Hedges, When Atheism Becomes Religion

This bugs me. What’s wrong with believing we can be better as a whole? We’re beings that are always adapting and learning and we will probably reach a point when the problems we know today will be gone, but there will be completely different- and equally taxing- problems to the humans ahead of us in time. It is possible to help lay the foundations of a better world today, and not believing that is going to hinder the future generations who will demand change I’m ways we will find apalling.

(Source: kittentroops)

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