I've been trying for a long time to put together coherent thoughts on this so forgive me if this is an unhinged ramble.
In my mind there's some kind of, possibly uniquely American but possibly a universal quirk of evolution, brainworm that makes people believe their direct biological descendants are somehow... Them? When these bazinga brains talk about sending humanity off to the stars, I want to grab them by the lapels and scream at them that humans surviving on another planet or in another galaxy literally does not affect them at all.
Despite them all being the most selfish motherfuckers in the entire world, they still literally think humanity is more important than humans, including themselves somehow.
Resolving those conflicting facts ties in with the weird eugenics adjacent shit about "population collapse" and having enough (white) babies, but I feel like it also connects somehow to the weird thing (many) Americans do where they identify by where their ancestors came from. It's one thing for an immigrant to identify with their homeland or for someone to identify with the culture of their parents, but when you've got random white people who have never left Ohio saying they "are" Irish or German I just don't get it.
I think there's something broken in at least the American brainpan but who knows maybe it's true everywhere, where these people literally think anything with their genes is an extension of themselves, without realizing that's what they're thinking, and not in some cosmic "we are all connected" or scientific "we are literally related" way, I mean they think this is true in some more important philosophical way. They really see their genetic cohort as not just related to themselves, but equivalent to themselves.
Idk maybe it's just racism in another hat. But regardless of what it is, this has always underpinned all this "humanity venturing out to fill the universe" shit in my estimation.
I've been trying for a long time to put together coherent thoughts on this so forgive me if this is an unhinged ramble.
In my mind there's some kind of, possibly uniquely American but possibly a universal quirk of evolution, brainworm that makes people believe their direct biological descendants are somehow... Them? When these bazinga brains talk about sending humanity off to the stars, I want to grab them by the lapels and scream at them that humans surviving on another planet or in another galaxy literally does not affect them at all.
Despite them all being the most selfish motherfuckers in the entire world, they still literally think humanity is more important than humans, including themselves somehow.
Resolving those conflicting facts ties in with the weird eugenics adjacent shit about "population collapse" and having enough (white) babies, but I feel like it also connects somehow to the weird thing (many) Americans do where they identify by where their ancestors came from. It's one thing for an immigrant to identify with their homeland or for someone to identify with the culture of their parents, but when you've got random white people who have never left Ohio saying they "are" Irish or German I just don't get it.
I think there's something broken in at least the American brainpan but who knows maybe it's true everywhere, where these people literally think anything with their genes is an extension of themselves, without realizing that's what they're thinking, and not in some cosmic "we are all connected" or scientific "we are literally related" way, I mean they think this is true in some more important philosophical way. They really see their genetic cohort as not just related to themselves, but equivalent to themselves.
Idk maybe it's just racism in another hat. But regardless of what it is, this has always underpinned all this "humanity venturing out to fill the universe" shit in my estimation.
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