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You are not the protagonist. You are not even
a background extra. You are a flicker of static
on a screen no one is watching.
There seems to be a lot of material like this online lately, but Eternal Rift really tickles my funny bone. If you’re not at peace with your utter insignificance, this might be as amusing as a funeral march, but as you develop a healthy sense of absurdity, material like this will hit like a delightfully dark comedy routine. –jm
As this video begins, someone has just died, right now, this exact second. Maybe in another city, maybe in another country, maybe close enough that if you opened your window, you could hear the ambulance. You didn’t know them. You will never know them. And here is the part you don’t want to say out loud: you don’t care. Not because you’re cruel, but because you can’t.
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"And now, the final illusion—the hardest one to kill because it's wearing your face: the belief that there is a solid self in here, a permanent 'you' that must be defended at any cost. Almost all human suffering is born from guarding this invisible construction."