foo ✅ on Nostr: This is why people cling to it. It's the most fundamental jenga block of our culture ...

This is why people cling to it.

It's the most fundamental jenga block of our culture - for 20 centuries now.

Take that away and find out about all the problems it was patching for people this whole time.

No one wants to look at it. I'll keep my lucky rabbit foot, thank you very much.

We need that comforting narrative too, for meaning in life. Take that narrative away and it's just brutal nature and lots of ways for nihilism to manifest.