/lit/ - Literature

The thing I don't get about Ted advocates - it that it's basically a death sentence for mankind and all life on the planet, come the next cosmic golfball or any of the other possible 50,000 world ending events. I mean folks joke about the roaches taking over and shit, but this sphere's not got enough time left in the Goldilocks zone to develop another species with any potential of spreading its story beyond its biosphere. When we go, that's it - anything that survives us is just waiting for the final death knell in blissful ignorance in a billion years when the oceans boil away.

Though I've never been able to hop on board any of these entirely self-centered philosophies, as all I can figure is that they are for people who have decided anything that doesn't personally benefit them is pointless, and care about nothing outside of their own lives. The usual solipsistic nihilism that just seems to be an excuse to be a selfish asshole, because anything that doesn't affect you is "ultimately meaningless". Neglecting the fact that everything is "ultimately meaningless", that we are meaning making machines that grant meaning, be it to our own comfort, those of others, or to the survival of all.

I mean, I get being pissed at civilization and the dehumanizing effects of often being more number than man... But going full Amish doesn't seem a sustainable solution for collective survival.