I just needed to determine if these were "troll forums". I collect information you see. I wonder why jiggling clumps of subatomic particles give rise to the most gloriously complex delusions. It took almost 14 billion years worth of energy for the universe to "wake up" as far as we know, and apparently the first thing it did was permanently blind itself. I can only conclude that we we might be living in a "retarded" universe. Think about the multiverse (which seems like a reasonable conjecture).
I bet that in some of these universes there's a tendency for life to arise that isn't hopelessly self-blinding. Those are the universes I would have chosen to belong to. Not this one.Now there's a thought worth considering. How would you go about finding a nice, sane, healthy planet that isn't choking on human garbage?
More than 99% of species that have ever existed are gone, and this percentage will only approach 100%. This is a trivial observation. Now, why is this the case? The answer is embodied in human self-destructive behavior. The machinery of that slaughter in encoded in our DNA.
Anything explicitly "nihilist" about these observations for starters? We better take this slow. Taking apart the human mind should be done with artistry, and I'm an artist.
Also - I want to see what you got. Send your best minds. Anything less will be boring, and it will probably still be trivial and boring.
Nothing wrong with your mind. It's your heart that's sick. Our best minds are powerless to help with that, I'm afraid.
I'm not hopeful about the future, any more than you are. What it comes down to, is how am I going to live?
I don't think I have the power to reverse any of the bad stuff you mentioned. Mostly, I have control over how I spend my time. For the moment, anyway.
You're an artist? Good. Art is probably the most important thing humans can do with their time. Make some good art, if you can. Something that means something to you, and maybe to somebody else.
We live at the end of human existence, most likely. But it's not materially different to you or me than if we lived at the beginning of human existence, or in the middle somewhere.
Today, where I am anyway, the air is still sweet and breathable. I don't want for anything material. For individual humans, that's pretty good. I try to live one breath at a time.
All the non-human species that are dying....as best I can tell, they don't obsess about any of this. It's only humans who do.