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These aphorisms are dedicated to people who’ll laugh at least once while reading them. For those who wouldn’t laugh even once, I suggest to re-read them again. If they don’t laugh even then, they are too serious and should be reading something else.

Purpose

Maybe our purpose is transcending nature?

Work

Modern work is Sisyphean. At least he was punished by the gods.

Unique

Whatever you create with AI cannot be repeated.

Fated

Human beings are naturally anxious because we are ultimately helpless and abandoned in a world where we are fated to die.

– Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

Brutal

Mother Nature is a brutal bitch, red in tooth and claw, who destroys what she creates.

– Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

Rule

It’s simple: if you create something that didn’t exist before – no matter how – it should be yours.

Scared

A sufficiently frightened people will agree to anything.

Years

The years pass, with a nervous pace.

– Bajaga

Outrage

You know what else destroys the planet? Your car. Your big-ass house. The steak you ate for dinner. The cheap plastic stuff that you buy ceaselessly. Where’s your outrage then?