He said to Neo that humans are like a virus, breeding and infecting the world with our “stick” and general disgustingness.
I look around the world, at the state of society, the environment, international conflict and the enshitification of humanity - I’ve gone through my life blindly accepting that life for life’s sake is beautiful, and worth it.
But as I see the state of it all, our perpetual need to destroy each other over ideas and resources, I struggle to come to grips with it. Societies around the world are facing population shrinkage… Do they all know something I don’t?
Is human life beautiful, and objectively worth perpetuating? Or are we a blight? Why should we be?
@cmeu there’s a book you might like called The World Without Us that you might find helpful.
It’s a thought experiment written by a journalist about what exactly would happen to everything in the world if humans disappear tomorrow.
I think there was a documentary (or several) about this too. It looked interesting, but I never got to watch it in the end.
@resketreke good to know, will keep an eye out for it.
Miniseries on Discovery called Life After Humans