It’s only depressing if you’ve convinced yourself that you’re something more than an intelligent ape.
If you think about it from the perspective of an animal that had no concept of time, space, ethics, or philosophy just a few hundred thousand years ago, then we’re actually pretty impressive.
We probably won’t have any significant effect on the galaxy, but we sure have an effect on Earth.
Jeez the comments are depressing.
I believe humans are special and so are our accomplishments.
On the scale of the universe, we are just a spark, tiny, and which dissapears as soon as it appears.
It’s only depressing if you’ve convinced yourself that you’re something more than an intelligent ape.
If you think about it from the perspective of an animal that had no concept of time, space, ethics, or philosophy just a few hundred thousand years ago, then we’re actually pretty impressive.
We probably won’t have any significant effect on the galaxy, but we sure have an effect on Earth.
Well I don’t think of myself as an animal
Humans have no more abject worth than crickets or antelopes or carp.