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Nobody sees how the story ends

I can understand there is an inherit sadness in not knowing the outcome of one's life's work, but as you say none of use ever see how it ends. In terms of our natural environment humankind has only ever observed in person, let alone recorded, what amounts to the blink of an eye.

The Sundays beg to differ.

Are you alluding to some religious thing?

Fear of oblivion and/or the unknown is fucking scary.

Certainly this: https://youtu.be/FHsip5xOenQ

So is the Fridays ;)

Avril Lavigne as well.

Phoebe Bridgers also. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ9-xN6dCW4

Wow was not expecting to see a Sundays reference in this thread, let alone HN. One of my all-time favorite bands!

Depends which story. Every death is the end of somebody's world.

Someone might. I think we stand a reasonable chance of self-selecting for extinction in the next few centuries. It's not the end of the story, but it's the end of our story. Someone will be the one who shuts off the lights on the way out.

Our generations of the last 10,000 years are seeing how the story decays.

When the food supply was abundant, families would jog every day doing BBQ every night hunting down mammoths

We have become red in tooth and claw. At the summit of civilisation, we are alienated with our screens, licking frozen TV dinners in our shared flat while we work hard to support our landlords

As long as we have surviving records people have been saying the past was golden and the present is decay with a long list of the present ills which are the downfall of the glorious past. It's a boring take and has been incorrect for thousands of years and will continue to be. Arguments about how some list of things haven't been on a monotonic increase during the last generation do not refute this.

It’s not boring, it explains the demise of the human experience, no matter how bigoted you pretend you are

huh?

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