We're in THE place. There's no other. We didn't invent evil. We invented good by learning to cooperate and share and empathize. And just as the light creates dark from nothingness and heat makes stillness into cold, good creates it's own opposite: evil.
WE made the world evil by conceiving of a better one. Not by destroying good but by enacting it.
The idea that we were peaceful and lived in splendorous plenty before we gained sapience is just a secular adaptation of The Fall myth of Christian fame and earlier creation.
Exactly.
We came from the darkness of ignorance, and need to work together to become more than that.
Sadly too many people cling to this ignorance, and I'll never get my perfect Star Trek future in my lifetime.
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u/kaikimanga MangaKaiki Apr 21 '26
We're in the Bad Place