Have you ever come to the conclusion that everything is well and truly fucked?
I had this epiphany of terrified disappointment the other day, when I realized that all the dreams I had for humanity were NOT going to happen any time soon, if at all. The rampant stupidity of everything and everyone around me just overwhelmed me for one brief, shining moment.
Why do we still use fossil fuels? Why do we have to pay so much for health care? Why do we have immigration laws and then ignore them? Why do we allow so many frivolous lawsuits, and why do these people win them? Why do religious fanatics gain power and preach war and hate?
Seriously, we should have space stations and nanotechnology and live to 1000 years in an 18 year old body on a terraformed Mars, not driving internal combustion engines in a smog filled, poorly planned city to be wage slaves to pay for prescriptions that keep us from throwing ourselves off cliffs in despair over our lives! What HAPPENED to everything? Where is our great and glorious future? When did mediocrity win over innovation? How come Atlas isn't shrugging this all off?
If I were a single man, without family, I'd wish this whole, twisted world-wide civilization into a pure, cleansing fire, and start anew with bonobos.
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