Angst Filled Fuck Up
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- Sep 9, 2018
- 2,975
Want to know if you're leveling up? Examine your life. Do you feel less fulfilled, more lonely, poorer, unhealthier, uglier, than before? Chances are you're advancing.
I look at old people and wonder what the hell they have going on for them. It's that old pyramid structure where you go downhill in the second half of your life, only to be left in a childlike state again towards the very end.
I'm not saying any of us should like it (or do). But that does seem to be the basic premise on this ball of mud - lose everything, accept it all with grace, and die with nothing. It's our inability and unwillingness to accept how horrifically shit this all is that fuels our ideation.
I can't fathom the mechanism that's behind this. To have such an advanced species that's sentient and self-aware, that's capable of great love but also immense suffering, to be conscious of all the bad and still have to endure it for 80 or more years. If it was all accidental, it's incredibly unlucky, and if it was deliberate, it's insanely cruel.
That is all.
I look at old people and wonder what the hell they have going on for them. It's that old pyramid structure where you go downhill in the second half of your life, only to be left in a childlike state again towards the very end.
I'm not saying any of us should like it (or do). But that does seem to be the basic premise on this ball of mud - lose everything, accept it all with grace, and die with nothing. It's our inability and unwillingness to accept how horrifically shit this all is that fuels our ideation.
I can't fathom the mechanism that's behind this. To have such an advanced species that's sentient and self-aware, that's capable of great love but also immense suffering, to be conscious of all the bad and still have to endure it for 80 or more years. If it was all accidental, it's incredibly unlucky, and if it was deliberate, it's insanely cruel.
That is all.