Isn’t it interesting to look outside ourselves for a moment and consider things from a different point of view.
When I find myself seriously considering things like that, I remind myself to go outside and touch grass.
Why are you talking to me like that?
I just don’t believe that the Venn diagram of people who like looking at space pics and people who are seriously committed to leading a post-human space empire is a circle.
This isn’t just a space pic. This is, specifically, a nihilist space meme. I think the venn diagram in this case has a lot of overlap.
you don’t matter on the scale of the Earth, everyone disappears when you zoom out far enough.
Yes. I agree this is what it’s communicating. This seems straightforward, empirically correct, and philosophically basic.
I reject that!
Everyone matters. When you zoom out, we’re all the same. We’re all connected. An injury to one is an injury to all.
What this meme does and what you are doing is flipping that around to then say “When you zoom out, we’re all irrelevant. We’re all nothing. No one matters at scale.” I refuse! Every single person matters to all of us, because we’re all the same. When you zoom out you can’t tell us apart, all you can see is a pale blue dot. That’s us. That doesn’t mean that no one matters at scale, that means everyone matters as much as everyone else. No one is more important or more valuable or more human, we are all the same, we all matter equally. We are our home.
I refuse to accept that no one matters, no matter what scale we are talking about. Every single person matters as part of that pale blue dot.