>>14197347because no matter how far you extend to grasp your reaching with a monkey paw and eventually you will be swinging that hand in violence to club some other nearby monkey. you either appreciate this cycle for is aesthetic beauty and the noble tragedy of the human condition, or you reject it, reject yourself, and become some weird technonerd riding around in a spaceship shriveled up and bald kidnapping and penetrating your ancestors to solve whatever horrifying impending disaster you have forcefully evolved your species into.