When I return to the meme years later, I see the cloudiness of the metaphor. Darkness has no moral value, and its omnipresence matters little to a crab with no functional eyes. And pressure is relative, depending on the body that moves against it; what crushes a human behooves a blobfish. Though the yeti crab’s environment seems inhospitable to us, it is nothing to be pitied. The pressure does not crush the crab, and the darkness does not oppress it. It is exactly suited to the life it leads, however strange or repulsive we might find it. What use is the sun to an eyeless crab? It already has
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