It is a time of the edge, friends, a real serious edge, but it is not new to us. We have been here before. One might say, looking at humanity's history, we have been here forever. We have looked at problems this bad and even worse and triumphed. Humanity is at its best when it is at the edge.
Nothing is set in stone, of course.
We could lose it. We have lost it before. It seems that losing it has been one of our favorite ways of learning. We could be so lazy and stupid that we will not rise to this opportunity, but I do not think so. I do not think that the human souls who have forged the measure of freedom from the blood and sweat of countless generations, who have created the field of liberty and life that many, many millions on the planet know and enjoy, are either stupid or lazy.