There's this great finality that we've crossed a threshold in which we can't be as evil to eachother as we have been ever again. That was us, it isn't us now, and we'd never let any of that happen again. Racism was wrong, slavery was wrong, segregation was wrong, nonequal voting rights and social standards were wrong. We even took a great leap and decided the Nazis were wrong, collectively. Harassment of the LGBTQ+ community and differences between person to person are often treated like old issues. We'd moved past all that. That was the 'old US'.

"As I etch this final tome, I harken back..."

Man, I hope nothing happens to ruin these authors' bright outlooks on the future of humanity in oh... five years.