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Bloomberg Opinion writer. Elected "top neoliberal shill" of 2018. Occasionally posts anime gifs.

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    1. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 15

      I like to think that my ancestors were nothing and nobody. Random boring peasants with no special talents or wealth. Except for Genghis Khan, of course. But he's everyone's ancestor.

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    2. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 15

      The best thing about this approach is that I don't have anything to live up to. ;-) (end)

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    3. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 15

      (more) But, you know, I actually am really proud of my ancestors. I'm just not proud of my *personal* ancestors for being better than the ancestors of other people (which they probably weren't). I'm proud of the ancestors of all humanity.

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    4. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 15

      I'm proud of the humans who found a way over the bloody centuries to lift themselves up out of agricultural indigence. Who found ways to wrench away from nature, bit by agonizing, confusing bit, the secrets of how the world actually works, and to preserve that knowledge.

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    5. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 15

      I'm proud of the humans who found a way to carve out a civilized safe space for (at least some) humans, so that now at least some people can grow up without the thing we call "PTSD", which was once the universal and natural human condition.

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    6. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 15

      I'm proud of the humans who, bit by agonizing bit, found moral principles more advanced than "might makes right", and who did the hard labor of centuries to craft societies who were just a little more kind and gentle than the ones that came before.

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    7. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 15

      And most of all, I'm proud of the apes (or pseudo-apes), my most glorious ancestors. The animals who somehow found a way to be a little more than animals. What a task that was. What a labor of millennia.

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    8. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 15

      We humans are not fallen beings. We did not fall from grace. We climbed upward from the muck. The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge was not sin - it was the whole damn point. Eating it was the only thing worth doing.

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    9. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 15

      (That sounds profound but actually I read it in a cheesy 1980s sci-fi book: https://www.amazon.com/Uplift-War-Saga-Book/dp/0553279718 …)

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    10. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 15

      And of course, there's so much left to do. There is so much farther to go. We're still animals, brutalizing each other and scrabbling for a living out of the unforgiving dirt. Our ignorance still dwarfs our knowledge. Our petty selfishness still dwarfs our kindness.

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      Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 15

      But even though there's so much farther to go, I'm proud of how far we've come. Against all the odds. Against a Universe of random death and entropy that had it in for us every step of the way. Those aren't just my ancestors. They're yours too. And you should be proud. (end)

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        1. Dabney‏ @DabneyPierce Oct 16
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          Can I chalk this up as a mild anti-identity politics thread? Please? :)

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        1. Greg Dworkin‏Verified account @DemFromCT Oct 16
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          Genghis does take some living up to. A beautiful thread.

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        1. Jami‏ @jami_interest Oct 15
          Replying to @Noahpinion

          I love your optimism. Don't stop being you. Kiss the bunny for me. Here is a pic of my puppy to say I'm one of the good humans:-)pic.twitter.com/EpjXnf1HFB

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        1. Jill Roberts‏ @Wine_Sailing Oct 15
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        1. jhaygood_CivilTweets, Inc.‏ @jhaygood Oct 15
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          That’s two days in a row you’ve posted things that really connected with me. Thx for these small gifts.

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        1. John Reade‏ @JohnPReade Oct 15
          Replying to @Noahpinion

          Interesting thread. Thanks.

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        2. Robert Fiore‏ @RobertFiore1 Oct 15
          Replying to @Noahpinion

          I consider myself Italian in that practically every relative I came in contact with was connected to the Italian end of the family, but honestly, my actual "ethnicity" is suburban middle class.

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        3. Robert Fiore‏ @RobertFiore1 Oct 15
          Replying to @RobertFiore1 @Noahpinion

          He says after the traditional Columbus Day observance of watching The Godfather Parts I and II.

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        2. Joel K. LaPinta‏ @jklapinta Oct 15
          Replying to @Noahpinion

          Bravo. The science which has revealed the vastly improbable existence of each of us speaks to why we ought to value one another and abandon our ancestral instinctual tribalism.

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        3. Joel K. LaPinta‏ @jklapinta Oct 15
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          Tribalism may have served our species in the past but it no longer does.

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        1. Josh Hunt‏ @Bouje99 Oct 16
          Replying to @Noahpinion

          So I don’t think 23andMe is coming to you for endorsement deals anytime soon, but that was good.

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        1. Thomas Brian‏ @Tombeecon Oct 15
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          If humans go extinct how is this morally different from any other species going extinct? And whats explicitly wrong with might makes right? It can be biologically advantageous. (playing devils advocate)

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