Saturday, April 19, 2025

How badly we design life?

 

Life is all entropy—an unending stream of turbulence. You’re constantly battling time: sometimes rushing to grow up, sometimes trying to slow its relentless pace, and at other times just struggling against its overwhelming hold. Time can feel like an adversary. So can nature. It offers moments of breathtaking beauty, but also demands that you protect yourself from its harsher forces—rain, heat, storms, landslides, earthquakes.

In all this chaos, people could be—should be—the least hostile part of the equation. But modern society builds systems, services, and economies that push us to compete against one another. And that competition, more often than not, leads to our mutual unraveling.

Picture yourself on a fast-moving slide of time, slipping uphill or downhill, never truly in control. And while you’re trying to hold on, you're asked to make others lose.

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