>>11325646Lately I've been thinking humanity is more or less collectively suicidal - the knowledge of our own mortality, combined with a lack of belief in God/afterlife and the shitty emptiness of most people's lives manifests in things like our leaders playing chicken with other countries who possess nukes, or voting in crazy ways in general, such as Brexit and Trump (no h8 it's just kind of a wild move), things like that. In our daily lives we have to be responsible and have low time preference in order to not be wasteful burdens on those around us/be productive for society but at the same time we know it all has to collapse at some point and chaos, degeneracy and degradation are inevitable, so there's a dissonance always in the back of our collective consciousness.
