In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
Being God would be the ultimate.
But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.
Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.
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