If you haven’t noticed, people have a habit of embracing fatalistic word views, whether they make sense or not. It’s highly satisfying to think you are the last of the human race. You are then an apex, instead of a stepping stone. This tendency is the result of emotionalism, not logic.
The end is not nigh. It never was. The end is never coming. That is the true horror of life and the circumstance we live in. As a result of technology proving itself capable of jumping over just about any hurdle, we know that life will go on and on and on.
So what does an individual mean in this time? They are not the people on the lifeboats drifting from the titanic, they are any number of passengers of any number of cruise ships in any number of seas all over the world at any given time.
To make an impact, one doesn’t simply have to exist, they have to exist with fury. It’s a lot to take on. Instead of simply waiting for the aliens to blow us to smithereens, or global warming to roast us like turkeys, or god to slap his dick on your continent, you have to actually do something to be remembered.
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