A sad epiphany

[Internet Nomad]

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[Aseer]

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[hayran]

You can pour molten lava down into their anthill to create an anthill sculpture. You can cause a mass extinction event for their colony and they wouldn’t possibly be able to comprehend what hit them. All because you were curious about their little hole looks like underground

I was always fascinated by the mode of existence these little insects have, and yet they can be utterly destroyed by the innocent and childlike curiosity of man. At the end of the day these are insects, eusocial lifeforms bred to develop these cute little hives. Humans know that the insect is a lowly creature, to call someone an insect is to call them meaningless, puny and ontologically dead, and that is despite the fact that they have these advanced “societies”

Should a human culture be insect like? Should we really be some mindless horde of sterile NPC slaves to some “great society”? Would you personally admit that you are aspiring to be part of said bug horde? A lot of people seem to just be aspirants to a “great society” of meaningless and dead masses, but with cute walkable cities populated with beings who look like them. And the end goal of this philosophy is to create the molten anthill of this “civilisation”.

You can analyse your society with the perspective of a child looking at an ant trail, draw your conclusions but you will not have true perspective without a deep look into your own self and being. Ultimately you can project yourself onto some random soldier ant, being a random NPC in some “developed” country like any other but populated by your group, living a meaningless ant existence until being chucked into the pit of corpses at the bottom, or you can be the morbid child who sees the meaninglessness of the mere ants life, and uses a magnifying glass to zap these things out of existence. In this scenario, the child understands the laws of the world better than the ant.

 

[The truth seeker]

Human beings will always be tribal and divided it’s just the way the world works

 

[_Yusuf_]

You can pour molten lava down into their anthill to create an anthill sculpture. You can cause a mass extinction event for their colony and they wouldn’t possibly be able to comprehend what hit them. All because you were curious about their little hole looks like underground
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I was always fascinated by the mode of existence these little insects have, and yet they can be utterly destroyed by the innocent and childlike curiosity of man. At the end of the day these are insects, eusocial lifeforms bred to develop these cute little hives. Humans know that the insect is a lowly creature, to call someone an insect is to call them meaningless, puny and ontologically dead, and that is despite the fact that they have these advanced “societies”

Should a human culture be insect like? Should we really be some mindless horde of sterile NPC slaves to some “great society”? Would you personally admit that you are aspiring to be part of said bug horde? A lot of people seem to just be aspirants to a “great society” of meaningless and dead masses, but with cute walkable cities populated with beings who look like them. And the end goal of this philosophy is to create the molten anthill of this “civilisation”.

You can analyse your society with the perspective of a child looking at an ant trail, draw your conclusions but you will not have true perspective without a deep look into your own self and being. Ultimately you can project yourself onto some random soldier ant, being a random NPC in some “developed” country like any other but populated by your group, living a meaningless ant existence until being chucked into the pit of corpses at the bottom, or you can be the morbid child who sees the meaninglessness of the mere ants life, and uses a magnifying glass to zap these things out of existence. In this scenario, the child understands the laws of the world better than the ant.

Masterful dismantling of this thought process.