And you, the striving scholar led astray? That's dramatically self-aggrandizing or dramatically self-deprecating.

[ Not complaining about being cast as a devil is also dramatic, but, well, Rau was semi-complaining about not frying the planet six comments up. To the broader topic: ]

Humans and devils alike, we move toward a future we cannot see.

[ Though even accounting for non-omniscience, it really is absurd to try for mutual annihilation and end with mutual relative forbearance, when there are so many ways humanity could have shot itself in the foot! ]