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Our consciousness is the "parent of all horrors, an evolutionary defect that has doomed us to a futile search for meaning while our survival hinges on the respo
by weatherlight 5y ago
Our consciousness is the "parent of all horrors, an evolutionary defect that has doomed us to a futile search for meaning while our survival hinges on the response to pain, the fear of death, and the instinct to procreate. Awareness of this absurdity pushes us to shut it out, trapping us on a proverbial hamster wheel where we busy ourselves with whatever will keep those thoughts away—religion, hedonism, even the distractions of art and music.
- ip26 5y ago“parent of all horrors I feel like unclosed quotation marks have to rate pretty high on the list too twitch
- weatherlight 5y agoI wish, I were, too, so easily distracted by missing punctuation.
- bspammer 5y agoWhen reading stuff like this I often think “so what”? All of the above is true, but life is still fun. I’m glad I was born into this absurdity.