Really puts into perspective how much humanity have evolved.
When ever I wonder about something, I can just conjure it and have it in the palm of my hand.
Galaxies, star systems, the map of the entire world, history, geopolitics, real time events from across the world.
I mean, yes, bad things still happen in the world, but its just so… amazing, intruguing, awesome, and also absurd how we can just know almost anything and everything if we are willing to search for the topic.
The world seems bigger, and ourselves seem smaller.
What the fuck is life? Its so… strange…
When I was a kid, space felt so magnificient.
But now I’m dealing with depression, and the universe feels kinda existential.
I look at humanity and felt so amazed at the cooperation that built civillizations.
But simultaneously see the hatred between groups of people, and it feels depressing.
Edit: I don’t know what this post is supposed to be, kinda just wanna talk into the void of the internet, share some thoughts. I don’t have friends to talk to, wanna talk to some Lemmy strangers I guess… 👀
Sort of related, I’ve been reading a series of blog posts about ancient Rome and Greece. Super interesting stuff, and it happened so long ago! At the same time, the ancient romans and especially greeks were slavers (Sparta was literally 85% slaves, Rome was comparably egalitarian with just 15%) and were really into the “glory” of battle, which was often really bloody especially for the Romans (in other places/other time periods, battle seems to have had surprisingly low lethality).
If you’re interested, the series on Sparta is a pretty neat (and horrifying) introduction for that blog: https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-i-spartan-school/ The blog author is a college teacher who is specialized on antiquity, btw.