Words, words, words. Too much, really. They talk about all these grand concepts, far-off lands, but arguably are just window dressing for something else - something deeper. Because inside this article is something inherent to all life on earth, yet entirely obfuscated by endless distraction: sacrifice. It only appears once in the entire entry, as if it is supposed to add something reprehensible to something already as shallow as the Java Sea.
I think that's the problem. Our brains assume that conceptually, sacrifice is hard, that it's something to avoid. You'll hear organisations like the NDI in fiction call it a 'necessary evil'. That's a smokescreen, dickwads. It's not hard at all. The real problem is that it's easy.
Life is designed to consume other life. The world is designed to change, and to change, you must give something up. To move forward, you must evolve, and to evolve - isn't hard. It's an inevitability, and inevitabilities always happen. What's hard is making things last forever, trying to stem death off like it's something that isn't natural.
But it is.
DEATH is natural. SACRIFICE is endemic to the human condition. I've made millions of them, after all. It's easy.
Especially when you're not the person doing the giving.
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I must search deeper.