Disbelief and Its Causes

> George Carlin nailed it when he said, the face of true existential horror is when you get to middle age and realise that all those idiots you went to school with are now running things.

True existential horror is when you get to old age and realize that the only people who have ever been running things are idiots you didn’t go to school with.

There is no decline of “Western” society due to a breakdown of trust in authority, there’s just a collective and ongoing death of God -> King -> Nation -> Authority -> Me, where it slowly dawns on everyone that it’s not just the emperors who have no pants… we’re literally all standing around, dribbling, with our bits hanging out.

Personally I’m hoping interacting with what will likely always be merely stochastic parrots will eventually show us that believing we’re thinking innovative thoughts isn’t the same thing as actually thinking innovative thoughts. Or maybe we’ll burn up our ability to feed ourselves first.