Rust Cohle wrote:
I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. ...
The only tragic misstep here is assuming that there is a path that one can misstep upon. Evolution has no arrow of progress nor a path.
We became too self-aware.
As compared to what? What does 'too self-aware' even mean?
Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself.
There is no entity called 'Nature' creating aspects of 'itself'.
We are creatures that should not exist by natural law.
I can't even be bother to explain what utter contradictory bollocks this is.
We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, this accretion of sensory experience and feelings, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody's nobody.
Who's this 'we' he's yakking about then?
I think the honorable thing for our species to do is to deny our programming.
Oh! So he can have an 'I' when it suits him eh!
Stop reproducing.
Why?
Walk hand in hand into extinction.
Given that most species appear to go extinct in the end, we already are.
One last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.
Existential angst is a painful and pitiable thing.
Marty Hart: I got an idea, let's make the car a place of silent reflection from now on. Okay?
Nah! Let's bang out the tunes and go on a road-trip!!