Original artwork, not a still
It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Humanity is admitted to be flawed, weak, sick, ugly and argumentative, but the speaker argues that if that were the whole story, we'd have died out ages ago. Our survival is offered as evidence of some deeper strength.
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