Every generation has imagined itself to be living at the center of history.
We inherit the conviction that our age is somehow different from every age that came before it. We celebrate our discoveries, mourn our tragedies, argue over our politics, build our cities, and develop technologies that would have seemed miraculous to our ancestors. We measure our lives against the headlines of the day and often assume that history itself is bending around our particular moment.
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