Sublime

atavistic

him.

Karen.

If there had been some tiny bead present in the brain of all humans, that had told each other, They are like you; that had drawn some thin silk thread of empathy, person to person, in a planet-wide net—what might then have happened? Would there have been the same wars, massacres, persecutions and crusades?

offering not just Earthly analogy but often a caution against hubris: we don’t even understand other intelligent species here.

“Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs,” I said. “We have a protractor.

ursine.