Whenever I look at the stars i think about how humanity could be united in exploring space, working together on large scale projects like building a Dyson sphere, terraforming planets, making plans and advancements to preserve humanity for millenniums to come. Instead we're stuck on this small ball, still struggling with issues like hunger, poverty, etc that feel like should have been issues long gone by now but aren't because some greedy fucks are deciding to make people suffer for their own personal gain. The planet is dying and its starting to feel things are too far gone at this point. I know I'm being a bit of a doomer but I can't help feeling that all of our futures have been robbed.

  • maccruiskeen [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Looking at the night sky makes me quite anxious actually, whenever I think of the scale of the universe I become very uneasy. Sometimes I see those videos that compare sizes of stars or whatever and I have to immediately stop thinking about it.

    Humans know extremely little about the universe, we barely know about ourselves even, and I do think about this a lot. I used to be a proponent of antinatalism because of how insignificant we are. Inevitably, if we don't kill each other, I think there will be some truth that will destroy us, although I feel like the fact of our insignificance should have broken the world already.