Your first sentence makes a good point, and why humans so often fall into that trap. They really want these long horizon type things to happen in their lifetime, and can convince themselves that it is happening. See all the end of the world cults, 2012, endless prognostications from religious groups of the end times coming, and on and on. It's a psychological trap people fall into, and it's not limited to now in time. It's been going on for as long as humans have been around.
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