or a quick chat on human nature.
over the years, if you're lucky enough, you see and experience a lot of different places, cultures social classes and what not. I'm getting pretty old and have known and seen with my own eyes enough things that I though were ridiculous movie-only stuff by now that I regularly come to these conclusions:
- when you are truly rich this is because you love power and owning stuff and kept at wanting more
- when you have so much money at some point owning things don't mean anything anymore and doesn't do anything for you anymore, so you want to own things that produce value instead
- when you own a bunch of that it doesn't mean anything anymore and doesn't mean anything to you anymore, so you realize you could have all the things in the world and it still means nothing
- you realize the only real value is other people, not things
- you now want to own people, and you want them to approve and follow your desires
- you enslave the world
there are other paths in life but it's a common one. most thankfully fail along the way, but not all. very few make money to achieve another goal, and when they its usually because their goal is either making new stuff, or explore new places. if its none of them they start drinking and drugs until they kill themselves.
and this is why we've the conspiracies we have today.
I've a very machine like though process which I generally try to translate. I get that "void" speaks more to people in general but I find it incorrect enough in my own mental models basically. to me, a lack of drive is not void though I can conceive it to be explained as such.
with that said, I wanted to elaborate bit on "fix humanity". its a simplification to say that, f.e. we definitely are reproducing at a faster rate than sustainable, we also artificially create unfair outcomes which are not in line with nature's way.
e.g. you may be very smart, strong and charismatic but not own the land, money, etc and never be able to reach your full potential - while someone else who's much dumber, weaker, etc, but born right will. these things tend to balance themselves out overtime. nature's way is a simple decision system which we do not fully understand but can absolutely observe, and according to it, we'll certainly self destruct to some degree at some point. it could be in thousands of years though.
note that the part I find most interesting is the way the decision process itself works of course. if we figure it out, we may also lose drive. or we may create AI. or both!