July 9 | The Project Of Existence

The vast majority of human decisions, something to the tune of 99.999999999999999%, have been made without our consultation. This is the root of where most things went wrong.

From the invention of the wheel to the fall of Rome to laws of gravity and invention of the nuclear bomb, no one ever asked what we would do.

No one threw time on our calendars to sync on how long the second kingdom of the Egyptian Empire should last.

No one invited us to the emergency standup to discuss options for ending the Civil War. 

The net result is something like this: we are products of a fate and destiny not our own. Surrounded by the perpetual reminder that we have shockingly little say in the lives that we lead. 

In fact, we’re the latest couple of people in a long line of ancestors who also had shockingly little say in their own lives, up to and including which decades of human history they lived through. 

So why would we agonize over the whole project of it?

All we can do is be about the business we didn’t choose—watching the times, knowing we might be called upon to make a decision that will impact thousands of people after us.… Read the rest