Do I think it was inherent nobility that brought us out here? He shook his head. Maybe. I dont call it nobility, though. I think its our innate human need to champion the underdog. We are constant optimists. Were the emotional descendents of the caveman who stood defiant in the front of the wooly mammoth. We rebuild cities at the base of Vesuvius, get back on the bicycle when we fall off, whack that hornets nest every spring. Humans cheer for the couldnt be, believe in the shouldnt be. We love causes; the harder, the more lost they are, the more we love them. Is that nobility?Maybe. Maybe its a pernicious genetic defect that makes our species susceptible to shared delusion. Whatever it is, it keeps life interesting.
