And we are magnificent creatures. I want to help people realize this, and hopefully to get them started acting upon it.

The fact is that we're inundated with all that is bad in the world, which is degrading and distracting. Sure, evil exists, but the truth about evil is that it's weak. It's time to stop devoting the whole of our lives to it.

Who Is "We"?
Since I'm saying, "We are great," I should define the term: "We" refers to productive humans, and there are billions of us. We are the majority. Our problem is that we've been conditioned to take subservient positions.

Celebrating Our Greatness
The Romans used to celebrate themselves and their creations: their arches and domes, their aqueducts and fountains, their roads and farms, their prosperity. We've accomplished far, far more than they ever did, and yet we're convinced that we suck. There's a problem here.

The past few centuries have seen the most productive generations ever to inhabit the Earth. Never before, in our long history, have humans accomplished anything close to what we have. And yet we're convinced that we deserve no credit whatsoever.

It's all manipulation and falsehoods, my friends. It was all a coordinated attack on our minds.

With no historical precedent, productive people like you and me – not the sacrifice-collectors, but us, the producers – have created and discovered these things, and many more, over just the past few centuries:

The telescope.

The microscope.

Calculus.

The law of gravity.

The laws of mechanics.

The binary system.

The barometer.

Logarithms.

The slide rule.

Electronic calculators.

The blast furnace.

Practical steam engines.

Rifles.

Hand guns.

Eyeglasses.

Electrical generators.

Electrical transmission.

Ice cream.

The laws of electromagnetism.

Artificially produced ice.

Statistics.

The telegraph.

The telephone.

The electric light.

The electric motor.

The assembly line.

Automobiles.

Railroads.

Hot air balloons.

Airplanes.

Space travel.

Radar.

Photography.

Sound recording.

Video recording.

The fax machine.

The computer.

Radio.

Television.

The Internet.

The cell phone.

Refrigeration.

Air conditioning.

Mechanized farming.

Antibiotics and a hundred other medical advances.