Sorry for you too . <| sep |> Oh , damn . I didn ' t even realize . <| sep |> History has always followed a wavelike , cyclical pattern hard times create strong men , strong men make good time , good times make weak men , and weak men make hard times . The problem now is that technology is reaching a point where the strikes of hard times can be dulled so much by new advances to keep things from tumbling down these dull blows continue to cause decay , but will never cause death by blood loss like a barbarian horde or a plague . Our current trajectory points to living hell . If the transhumanists are at all correct , we have Hell . We need a hard reset . I fetishize the Middle Ages , but reverting to any point prior to 1300 is a good deal . Hell , blow us back to the Urheimat and urnfields . Burn the cities and smash the machines , I type on my keyboard and send through a series of tubes .