As the sun sets...
You aren’t shit.
You’re not, I’m not, and no human being that has ever walked the face of the planet is even remotely important when you look at the big picture. We’re important to US, but like I said, WE aren’t shit, so the significance of anything important to us is just a matter of perspective. You’re just another bug on a rock spinning in space.
The ego tricks you.
Your survival instincts and DNA will try very hard to convince you that YOU are important. You’re special. It’s very, very important that YOU survive, even if all the other people around you don’t.
It’s just a biological trick, and in some part of my mind that’s only running in the background I’m aware of it, but it’s really brought into the foreground when I fly.
It’s only a matter of time before something ends this planet.
And you know what? In the greater spectrum of the universe, it’s not even really going to be a tragedy.
Considered along with the constant, and incredibly immense events occurring every second of every day in the universe, it’s barely even going to register. No more than how the death of a single spore of mold affects you.
Look up at the sky.
Right now, as I type this, black holes are devouring entire solar systems, sucking them in to a force of gravity that we couldn’t even begin to comprehend, and pulling them down into the event horizon, crushing enormous planets many times larger than the earth into something that would barely be viewable on a microscope.
There is something like 100 billion stars in this galaxy alone. Each star represents a solar system, and this galaxy is one of 50 billion galaxies in the known universe.
Do you really think it matters if the earth survives?
Do you really think it matters if humans survive?
Do you even think that biological life is “important” at all? Isn’t the universe itself alive in a way that’s far more impressive and significant than anything “biological?”
Who will win American Idol? The finals were scheduled to air only 3 days after the asteroid hit, and I really want to know who the people picked. Are they really going to cancel Friends?
Since there are no more TV stations, can they do it as a play? I heard that Joey and Rachael were still alive...
The living people will gather together and pick leaders.
Even in an obvious holocaust, they will decide that people can’t handle the truth.
They will tell lies, but people will believe them, because they need hope.
They want the old ways to return.
Women want to have children, without worrying about them getting eaten by animals.
If the great flood hit, and only a few thousand of us survived, what would life be like?
How long would it take, if we had no books, before we discovered electricity again?
How long before we broadcasted images through the air again?
It could take thousands of years.
With everyone concerned with survival, the time for innovation would be few and far between.
Eventually, electricity will be re-invented for perhaps the 3rd or 4th time in the written, and lost history of the humans.
We like to think that we’re smarter than people from the recent past, but all we have over them is the improved ability to communicate. We have the internet.
We can talk to people from anywhere and everywhere.
We can pretend to be 13-year-old girls to lure in perverts.
But where would we be without a company to make the parts?
If all the parts and manufacturing plants were 400 feet under the ocean, how long would it take for me to figure out how to make one on my own?
The answer is it would never happen.
Not in 500 years.
What would the most advanced coders and programmers do if they were stuck in the wooded peaks of mountains?
They would try to survive.
Would they have children?
Perhaps.
Would they pass down the knowledge of computers?
They would tell stories, and try to explain it, but by the time their grandchildren have grandchildren, it will all be nothing but myth.
No one would have a phone to communicate with.
Languages would evolve and morph, and if you traveled just a few hundred miles, it would be like stepping into a foreign country. Sort of like how it is now in other parts of the world. With what little the average American knows about the very things that shape our society, within two generations, all would be lost.
Our documentation of our achievements is all on flimsy, fragile mediums like paper and hard drives. The spoken word can’t be trusted even today with full control over mass communication.
For the most part, people are liars with weak minds. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, we still teach our children that Columbus discovered America, and Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
I watch documentaries about the pyramids and all sorts of ancient structures that we can’t explain, and it’s all beginning to make sense.
We’ve been this way before, and it’s probably not the last time this is going to happen.
This is all just temporary, and people are going to start again from scratch.
Who knows, maybe they’ll even get it right this time.
You’re not, I’m not, and no human being that has ever walked the face of the planet is even remotely important when you look at the big picture. We’re important to US, but like I said, WE aren’t shit, so the significance of anything important to us is just a matter of perspective. You’re just another bug on a rock spinning in space.
The ego tricks you.
Your survival instincts and DNA will try very hard to convince you that YOU are important. You’re special. It’s very, very important that YOU survive, even if all the other people around you don’t.
It’s just a biological trick, and in some part of my mind that’s only running in the background I’m aware of it, but it’s really brought into the foreground when I fly.
It’s only a matter of time before something ends this planet.
And you know what? In the greater spectrum of the universe, it’s not even really going to be a tragedy.
Considered along with the constant, and incredibly immense events occurring every second of every day in the universe, it’s barely even going to register. No more than how the death of a single spore of mold affects you.
Look up at the sky.
Right now, as I type this, black holes are devouring entire solar systems, sucking them in to a force of gravity that we couldn’t even begin to comprehend, and pulling them down into the event horizon, crushing enormous planets many times larger than the earth into something that would barely be viewable on a microscope.
There is something like 100 billion stars in this galaxy alone. Each star represents a solar system, and this galaxy is one of 50 billion galaxies in the known universe.
Do you really think it matters if the earth survives?
Do you really think it matters if humans survive?
Do you even think that biological life is “important” at all? Isn’t the universe itself alive in a way that’s far more impressive and significant than anything “biological?”
Who will win American Idol? The finals were scheduled to air only 3 days after the asteroid hit, and I really want to know who the people picked. Are they really going to cancel Friends?
Since there are no more TV stations, can they do it as a play? I heard that Joey and Rachael were still alive...
The living people will gather together and pick leaders.
Even in an obvious holocaust, they will decide that people can’t handle the truth.
They will tell lies, but people will believe them, because they need hope.
They want the old ways to return.
Women want to have children, without worrying about them getting eaten by animals.
If the great flood hit, and only a few thousand of us survived, what would life be like?
How long would it take, if we had no books, before we discovered electricity again?
How long before we broadcasted images through the air again?
It could take thousands of years.
With everyone concerned with survival, the time for innovation would be few and far between.
Eventually, electricity will be re-invented for perhaps the 3rd or 4th time in the written, and lost history of the humans.
We like to think that we’re smarter than people from the recent past, but all we have over them is the improved ability to communicate. We have the internet.
We can talk to people from anywhere and everywhere.
We can pretend to be 13-year-old girls to lure in perverts.
But where would we be without a company to make the parts?
If all the parts and manufacturing plants were 400 feet under the ocean, how long would it take for me to figure out how to make one on my own?
The answer is it would never happen.
Not in 500 years.
What would the most advanced coders and programmers do if they were stuck in the wooded peaks of mountains?
They would try to survive.
Would they have children?
Perhaps.
Would they pass down the knowledge of computers?
They would tell stories, and try to explain it, but by the time their grandchildren have grandchildren, it will all be nothing but myth.
No one would have a phone to communicate with.
Languages would evolve and morph, and if you traveled just a few hundred miles, it would be like stepping into a foreign country. Sort of like how it is now in other parts of the world. With what little the average American knows about the very things that shape our society, within two generations, all would be lost.
Our documentation of our achievements is all on flimsy, fragile mediums like paper and hard drives. The spoken word can’t be trusted even today with full control over mass communication.
For the most part, people are liars with weak minds. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, we still teach our children that Columbus discovered America, and Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
I watch documentaries about the pyramids and all sorts of ancient structures that we can’t explain, and it’s all beginning to make sense.
We’ve been this way before, and it’s probably not the last time this is going to happen.
This is all just temporary, and people are going to start again from scratch.
Who knows, maybe they’ll even get it right this time.