there's so many conversations that can come from realizing that human beings aren't great. it immediately calls out so many flaws. it's like 'why are people racist?', 'why are people xenophobic?', 'why do we people intrinsically trust systems that place them at odds with each other?', 'why do people seem to lack empathy for other species, despite their tendency towards pets?'
people even have the nature of thinking we are the last step in the evolutionary ladder. that' logic' simply wouldn't exist if it weren't for human beings.
if you accept this, then you must accept the ego is an invention of the human being. the idea or concept of a 'you' in itself is a fucking creation.
and so i come back to the point, if you have to subscribe to the point that human beings are 'the most amazing things in the universe' then i say fuck you. you as the 'individual' specifically.
i don't know about all that. i don't think the universe is necessarily on a clock, in that even if it stops there's nothing to say it doesn't start again like a new day. and i'm not sure what 'gaining mastery over itself' even means, but it sounds nice. i know that we don't treat our environment right, we don't treat other species right, and we don't even treat other members of our own species right.
Entropy’s a bitch. Everything trends towards heat death. Who knows, though? Maybe we’re a simulation and someone will hit the reset button.
As in, becomes able to use all of itself for any purpose.
You know how humans, in absence of any need for urgent survival, like to gain mastery over everything through sports, study, exercise, etc? Basically that, except on a universal scale. Mastery exercised for the sake of mastery. Full comprehension of all that was and all that will be. In other words pan-psychic godhood.