BurgerBaron

I would support that decision. If you go through with sterilisation then allow yourself to check out, please. In my view this is opting out of the racing part of the human race, it’s no longer your problem. Word filter the internet. There’s browser extensions for this, I don’t just mean fediverse. It’s comment sections that get me upset faster than the articles themselves too I’ve learned. I set up an RSS feed instead for my downer days. I want to stay in the loop but not too much. I turn the filters on and off depending on my mood but cold turkey for a while is best practice when you’re just starting out. I’m no longer emotionally involved so it hurts less now to read the nasty stuff. It didn’t at first, not an immediate internal change.

The future isn’t your problem to solve, not that it ever was solvable to begin with. There’s no ultimate goal to begin with. No satisfactory answer. The void is silent on all matters. This is why I turned to Absurdism. It’s the cruel mindless nature of life at play on a finite planet that’s not usually pleasant to live on in this very hostile universe. Mindless evolution for the sake of it. It’s just chemistry, entropy gone wild. Humans are not an exception as much as they love to tell themselves they are to prevent going mad in unhealthy ways. Unfortunately, most humans opt for unhealthy ways. Religion is a big one.

Even if humans were perfect little angels, it won’t stop the Sun from becoming a Red Giant and eventually a white dwarf. There is no end goal besides obliteration. Legacy is meaningless. There will be one very alien to us day where not a single living thing is left to remember what happened here, the good and the bad. No matter how it plays out. Personally, that brings me comfort. In a sci fi future where we escape the Sun? Universal heat death is still in play. There’s no escaping extinction. It’s a matter of when, not if. Frankly, I think I’m being rather optimistic we make it long enough for the Sun to get too intense. I think we’ll be long gone before the oceans boil and evaporate into space.

People worry these views would make me a selfish monster but it doesn’t work like that. We have too much empathy, I hazard to guess. That can’t be avoided or ignored. Not in a healthy way. Remains no matter what we do. That’s the whole problem that is paining us here to begin with OP, no? That’s what I meant by “like-minded” so if not then this whole screed is a waste of your time.

If you adopt some of these views I promise you’ll still mostly act the same, vote the same ways. You can volunteer. Have hobbies, love someones. Whatever makes you a little happier. There’s no reason for us to pull the ladder up behind us but we don’t have to personally hold it in place either against a sea of unending assholes. Throughout history nothing good lasts very long. Someone will come along and fuck it all up.

Capitalism, fascism, whatever man. You make an anarchist utopia? Fully atheist? Some humans will come along and absolutely ruin any system you stand for. Or the fucking planet itself will. Or a space rock, or the Sun farts and fries all electronics on one side of the Earth, the poles flip, whatever. This is a constant back and forth fight throughout all of bloody not just human history.

Unlucky we were born in a decline era. Make the most of it but also make peace with the fact our quality of life will slowly or rapidly diminish until we die or get killed and rest easy knowing you won’t inflict this living hell on a new mortal human life which would end the same way no matter what their life was like: in their total obliteration. The same as you and I, no matter what internally dishonest cowards tell themselves and us about after-lives and various contradictory gods with not a sungke solitary shred of evidence to back them up.

There’s no point “rising up” prematurely either. Until the rest of these idiots around us get on board and they won’t yet. Still too comfortable and naive. When something realistically worth participating in shows up you and I could aid then, if only to try and make our own remaining years alive less awful.