Im going to be dead soon. Some day I will cease to exist, simply gone. Just like the 100 billion other humans who died before me, crumbling to dust and leaving as legacy only the most esoteric and indefinable impacts on the future of humanity through my impacts on the humans around me which will be passed on to their decnedents. And I won't even be remembered for my art just my influence, if I'm lucky
like, what the fuck am I supposed to do????
edit: I forgot to set the community and it defaulted to !earth@hexbear.net so I mean whatever I guess fuck you
"Chase Eros, Run Away From Thanatos" have been parallel motivations for humanity for as long as humanity has existed. There is no definitive satisfactory answer even though philosophy itself was primarily established to try to ponder one.
Even some sort of theoretical clinical immortality would have its own problems and unforseen consequences. I'm not even sure that if people could live forever if that would make them really that much happier. Not like techbros wouldn't try to lord over us forever while being increasingly fucked up and weird and monstrous over passing centuries. :no-mouth-must-scream:
You can't run away from thanatos he has the infinity glove he can teleport
Just wait until :my-hero: says he is the TechnoKing and snaps back.
I don't think something could exist for 1 million years and not have an extremely spotty memory. There's no way they would remember every single 365,250,000 day of their life.
Even in human lifespans, the perceived passage of time gets more and more compressed as someone gets older because of how much was previously remembered, causing the brain to filter out more and more experiences as redundant.
If you think the ruling class is absentminded and uncaring now, imagine a few centuries or a few millennia later. :no-mouth-must-scream: