I know the following is all common sense, but I tell ya, man is one peculiar creature. It constantly amazes me. We have a profound need for purpose in our lives and yet the only way to generate such purpose, as a collective, is to make it for ourselves. From trying to understand ourselves to trying to find god, we're always busy with our prying little fingers and curious little minds. Aside from satisfying the basic needs of life as every other creature seems to spend it entire existence doing (food, space, reproduction, rinse, repeat), we have all this "free time" to contemplate the universe.
I don't think this generation should be the last. I wanna leave it all to Bachmanesque chance. I want nuclear fire to consume the Earth due to some fanatic's dream or a giant space rock to smash us like the fist of an angry god. I'd feel like that's a better way to go than consuming all our natural resources while poisoning the planet with our waste products and offspring. Crabs in a barrel. What did Kurt Cobain's suicide note say? Yeah,
that.
The point above about how absurd it is to assume any one generation is the last given the driving force of human life is good. We're stomping, clawing our way into the future with every heartbeat. Our technology, our willpower, our sense of self, and our sheer numbers keep the human furnace hot.
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And to close, let's cue up this cheery little tune: