Scientifically speaking, the point of life is not to be happy. It's to survive.
So what if the human brain is too powerful in the physical world? We're innovative. We can develop infrastructure and medicine and technology. So what if a brain so massive is too dominant and too powerful? What if that's why we have emotions – to take us down a notch. To threaten our survival.
To try to kill us.
There's no greater predator, so we were designed to self-destruct.
To be our own predators.
It makes sense. We're the only being able to imagine. What if our imagination was too powerful, so it evolved to hurt us? It evolved from a vast source of knowledge and innovation to one of WhyWontHeTextMeBacks and DoTheyReallyLikeMes and WhyAmIHeres. It evolved to become a its own predator.
Our greatest threat does not lie in the cities or in the wilderness or in the cruel hearts of others. It's contrived in our own minds.
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