"You don´t seem to like people much," I said, then immediately regretted it.
"Don´t like people! That´s an understatement, laddie. If you had seen human nature as I have - the killing, the cruelty, the filth in man´s mind - you wouldn´t like people much either. Your time is the worst I´ve seen in many centuries - the greed, the spreading yourselves out, the spoiling of all things beautiful and natural, the snatching and grabbing, the dirt and noise you make, the casual and wanton brutality. Man neglects the world in this time of yours. He despises and destroys things that he does not understand. As long as he´s filling his fat belly and feeding his ugly offspring, he doesn´t care..."
...the words of a frustrated Old man time traveler...
(Henry Porter - The Master of the Fallen Chairs)
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