• silasmariner@programming.dev
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    8 days ago

    That seems a little glib to me. Not all stories are lies, not all stories have happy endings, some victors are known now thousands of years after their death. On a cosmic timescale I suppose that, trivially, nothing matters - but, conversely, the cosmic timescale is so vast that it doesn’t matter to us

    Also I couldn’t really parse what you were saying in your second paragraph so I’m gonna leave that there

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      8 days ago

      but, conversely, the cosmic timescale is so vast that it doesn’t matter to us…

      I agree, stories only matter because we lack objectivity.

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        7 days ago

        I’m not sure that anything can objectively be said to ‘matter’. So, yeah, I guess? Things only matter to us because we.care about them, sure…