The best concoctions of the Millenium to keep the populace perfectly sedated: computer/console games, facebook, and medication.
Another perspective to consider: your body is rotting a little each day until the final and irreversible disintegration called death and the best you ever managed to do with it was to make the next level, post your victory on facebook and take a sleeping pill to make up for all the 3am nights it took to get there.
But there is a come-back to that, as there always is: "Nothing really matters."
Yes, you are right...you don't matter...and nothing really matters...but keep making sure somebody else does...with each click, you make them matter more!
There was a webcomic that co9mmented on this, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Satan tries to temp a 25 year old still living in his parents basement, with a big screen TV and the latest console. Giving up, Satan goes to God and admits defeat, as the Lord has made earth 'as it is in heaven' so slowly the Devil didn't notice.
ReplyDeleteIn short, you're right. We give up in apathy and strive for small, achievable goals that in the grand scheme of things don't mean anything. The illusion of progress keeps us sedate while our lives rapidly decay around us.