/lit/ - Literature

>>17121919
Yes its an unbearably brainlet take and it pisses me off whenever anyone or anything brings it up. It’s the very definition of sour grapes. People find poignancy in transience, and beauty in singular, unreplicable moments only because they have no alternative. Then they post dumb shite like pic related to their social medias to pretend they don't feel the void by validating this stupid take with other brainlets' approval. The really sad thing though is that it's not just brainlet normies who do this. So much art has been dedicated to the pretence that there's something grand and ineffable in this supposed paradox of the human condition, when not so very deep down we all actually long to find beauty in permanence and truthfulness and universality instead. That's why religion was a thing. But that isn’t an option, so we content ourselves with a second rate profundity.

And what makes it even dumber is that even this predicament isn't some transcendent universal either. Because there are two possible trajectories for humanity. Either we go extinct in some catastrophe, in which case everything ceases to mean anything. Or civilisation survives indefinitely, our technology advances exponentially, and all our struggles cease to mean anything all the same. Dystopias are brainlets reassuring themselves - telling themselves they actually have it pretty good. In fact things might just keep on getting better. All our 'profound mysteries' of grief and mortality might be just meaningful to our descendants as the suffering caused by the transition from hunter-gathering to subsistence agriculture is to you.