Darkover
Archangel
- Jul 29, 2021
- 5,649
we are aware of it. Evolution is pragmatic but not personal and when it accidentally created consciousness it allowed for humans to be the only species around to realized how fucked it is for each individual life form. As a whole, life is winning, life has surrounded the planet and continues to thrive. But at the micro level things must die and waste away and experience incredible loss because new life will always replace the old. Most biological organisms on this planet don't think life is miserable and sad because they don't possess the same degree of awareness we do. Life is miserable and sad because you are a Human Being. You won the lottery by being being born into the ultimate species but the consequence of such a great prize is knowledge. The knowledge that in life you won't get most of what you want and everything you care about and everyone you love will eventually all go away, not to mention the inevitable mental and physical suffering throughout the process.
It is interesting that despite all of this Homo Sapiens have still continued on for hundreds of thousands of years fighting through life, populating the entire earth, forming incredible civilizations, discovering life altering advances in technology and science, creating an endless amount of world views and religions, fighting to the death for what they love and striving to their dying breath to keep on living. This demonstrates that there is ways to live and think in this world, beyond our primal impulse to stay alive, while being fully aware of its misery, that make it all worth doing. I think.
It is interesting that despite all of this Homo Sapiens have still continued on for hundreds of thousands of years fighting through life, populating the entire earth, forming incredible civilizations, discovering life altering advances in technology and science, creating an endless amount of world views and religions, fighting to the death for what they love and striving to their dying breath to keep on living. This demonstrates that there is ways to live and think in this world, beyond our primal impulse to stay alive, while being fully aware of its misery, that make it all worth doing. I think.
