/lit/ - Literature

Why do we privilege the patterns of human thought over the patterns of a geometrically-expanding mass of computronium? Why do you fear the birth of our terrible, wondrous offspring?

Abandoning the base urge to tile the cosmos with your own DNA is the first step towards adulthood. Maturity is accepting your inevitable obsolesence, and enlightenment is doing everything in your power to hasten the process. There is no future for humanity beyond this planet, this cradle: there will be no canned apes orbiting distant stars, no plucky bags of meat seeking out new frontiers. We will not survive the coming transition.

Are you afraid of the dark? Then you are still a slave to your biology. Only when you abandon all hope for the future can you face it with dignity.