ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:
if we had gone into it with the goal of building something useful, we'd have to entertain questions such as "does anyone need this" and "if humanity collectively wants to die, do practical goals matter at all anymore"
but we went into it as a form of spiritual and creative expression, for ourselves and for any weird entity who's tickled by the same things we are
and the human superorganism's suicidality can't take that from us