I think the main thing I took from science fiction was wallowing in the pessimism of authors like James Tiptree or Peter Watts The POV that all of this shit happened by chance, there is no God, evolution is a mindless heartless force The world doesn't really want you here
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"But it's natural and inescapable!" Doesn't make it not bad "If it's the way we evolved to develop then it means we have no choice but to find a way to grow up this way without trauma and regret" Just cause you have no choice but to do it doesn't make it possible
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"So what, you're saying give up on happiness? Give up on a better world? Give up on the future of the human race?" Maybe! I dunno! Just cause we're here doesn't mean we're "supposed" to be here, just cause we're trying doesn't mean we're "supposed" to ever succeed
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Yeah - that’s Freud, too. It’s the root cause of neurosis in his theory, for whatever that’s worth, but the real takeaway is that if you can’t change it, you at least have to DEAL with it.
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Otherwise, you have a society that will ritually kill and eat its elders. Which is probably a metaphor but you can never tell with that guy
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