… Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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This zoomed-out we’re-all-stardust shit is reddit taken to its furthest extreme. It’s not a “mote of dust.” It’s a planet. And the fact that it is smaller than the universe isn’t perspective. It’s faux-transcendence wrapped in a very condescending scientism wrapper. Hard pass.
“We are the center of the universe!” LOL, nope: we are an atom in a pimple on God’s ass