How does one determine whether the continuance of existence is reasonable to continue? I've been rather intensively looking into that question in regards to humanity for about 5 years now. Since I started this journey I've been asking myself, am I fighting for change, or am I fighting for the continuation of torture? Is the suffering so severe, and so guaranteed, that we should "put us out of our misery"? If you had an animal for example, it was badly injured, being constantly attacked by anything that encountered it, and it was screaming for an end... what would you do? It is considered a courtesy in many cultures all over the world to give it that end, that peace.
Who is the bad guy, in such a context? Someone who stops the suffering, or someone who continues it because they think maybe they can help reduce it? It's a huge dilemma in these dark times. As I look back on the people in history I most admire, I fear that for all the good humankind achieves, it is only a very tiny percentage compared to the evil. Such a tiny percentage that, honestly, it may be worse than superfluous. Being good in such statistics may actually be more harmful than good, because such people are then used as the excuse for why it must all continue. You start hearing that you've got to give good a chance. Even worse, their own lives are often ruined in the attempt to be helpful. Take anarchists throughout history, for example, starting with the earliest well known: Jesus Christ. "No good deed goes unpunished". Perhaps this is because they give hope in a world that shouldn't have it, in a world that needs to end.
As such, I think that we should abandon hope, for here there be almost exclusively monsters. Good is so extremely rare, and is surely only going to be more so thanks to environmental restrictions both natural and synthetic, that it's a lost cause. Further, we cannot be allowed to continue developing technology to inhabit other planets because we're so insane. If there were aliens watching, they would not be sane in letting humanity continue. I will be mostly leaving the internet, and as such my attempt to create community, for the second Trump era. It won't matter much either way I suppose as almost all my inboxes and algorithms are dead. I hope y'all still unfortunately alive have fun being garbage cans. I will be most busy gardening, like humans used to do before going into tech psychosis and deciding to murder the Earth. Be assured that I will not be nearly as kind as I have been when I return. In comparison to the pity for humanity and cooperative opportunities that inspired me to go public, I hate 99.8% of people at this point. It used to be, like, 80%. Please have more mass plagues and less children for your own sakes and mine. The overwhelming majority of people, regardless of nationality or culture or race or class or gender, are undoubtedly cancer. Maybe that's why a cancer is the head of the global economy, hahah. Kthxbye.
Hm...I can see your point that you are making at my core I am kind of a nihilist and a cynic. Life has no inherent meaning. It is full of suffering to the point where you almost have to be a masochist to enjoy and almost a bit of a sadist to even want to bring life into this world. Everyone seems to be out for themselves and at the end of the day people look at whether or not a relationship, romantic or otherwise can benefit them. There is no inherent meaning in our suffering except to the ones that are dishing it out and the meaning we ourselves make.
ReplyDeleteFor me the whole purpose of life is not only to suffer but to learn how to navigate the suffering and in doing so to gain a better understanding of life and ourselves in our own individual ways. They say life is a teacher well our good times are the little time we have between each period before we have to return to class once more. So we have to make the best of that time. Laugh have fun enjoy those small sweet moments in life more than we do.
I think most people have children they do it with the selfish need to have their bloodline continue. Even those who wish to have children in hopes that their children can help create a better future can be selfish as well. Wanting their bloodline to make a mark on history in a big way. But life is suffering and I feel a lot of times or the majority they teach or tell their children to power thro. Not so much teaching them how to make sense of all the suffering. But I guess that's where religion comes into play for a lot of people but that is a whole other topic. Loved the post by the way very thought provoking.
How did you break the block? Others weren't getting their messages put through.
DeleteCould it possibly be that I brow beat Google into turning my comments back on??? :0
DeleteWell anyways, thanks for the reply. I'm hitting what I'm calling my societal nihilist phase. I've been an absurdist for almost a half decade after a similarly long phase with personal nihilism and so basically I think I'm coming back around on it but on a different scale. Nihilism for me comes with the territory of cutting myself out. Absurdism is my interactive take.
DeleteWe do have a serious overpopulation problem. It can't keep being ignored. It's exponential and we will quickly completely destroy the planet and ourselves at our current global rate. We're either going to start seeing alot of infertility everywhere or serious international laws or we're going to end up literally fucking ourselves to death.