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“Left alone, nature takes care of itself. But all we humans do is destroy.
What happens after survival? What does it mean to survive, when you’re not quite sure what you’re living for? What do you do when you start to realize that you want more than just…existence?
How much of our childhoods can anyone really remember, anyway; and how much do we just piece together from the photographs in our family albums, the stories that our parents tell us about ourselves, until we have enough detail to color them in in our minds and claim them as our own?
Modern society uses television as a form of mind control, to blind man to the feelings of stress and dissatisfaction. Rather than absorbing himself in quiet and solitude, and learning how to be at peace in his environment, the modern man requires constant entertainment and stimulation. Thus, society keeps its citizens drugged and listless, sitting on their couches without engaging their minds.
Christ, what a miserable future, can you even imagine that? No books, no magazines, no newspapers—nothing tactile and intimate. Everyone just staring at screens until their eyes fall out. Someone needs to stop this nonsense, before it gets out of control.
The more we continue to replace a life of value with the “virtual” life, the less satisfaction we derive from our existence, resulting in a world in which citizens are anesthetized by pharmaceuticals and entertainment, living entirely in their heads rather than in a tangible, physical world.
Never underestimate the power of love to lead you down the path toward willful blindness. Faith in the people you adore doesn’t disappear slowly, with each tiny disappointment; instead, it collapses all at once, like the final snowfall that triggers an avalanche when the weight suddenly becomes too much to bear.
Life is a constant emotional calibration, then: the tiny adjustments we make every day as we come up against our discontents. We ride this seesaw, between hope and disenchantment, seeking some sort of equilibrium.
It bothers you to realize that, while what excites you most about computer technology is the purity of its mathematical logic, what excites them is the money to be made.
You are forced to think about nuclear warfare, whole countries being eradicated; AI triggering mass unemployment, leading to the collapse of the economic system; robot soldiers and global apocalypse. You learn that there are so many ways for a civilization to disintegrate.
Your hypothesis: Computers are a valuable resource that shouldn’t be controlled by government or industry; instead, all source code should be made public, enabling innovation and a redistribution of power.
Our shortsighted consumer culture believes in replacement rather than repair, values cheap Chinese crap over quality materials.
The longing for love is a flawed piece of human coding. It scrambles every circuit in your brain, fries your logic boards, makes it impossible to compute. Seized
But if there’s one thing I understand at this point, it’s that life isn’t always a series of binary choices. Sometimes it’s not about either/or but about learning how to manage the complexities of both/and.
