The Narrator
- The Stanley Parable
Without entertainment we would have to face inward toward the cruel bleakness inside ourselves. We would turn to look at our deeper nature, and find a resounding emptiness gazing back with unyielding aggression. And so - so because of this, we require that our amusements, and our play things, and our flights of fancy be so impossibly captivating that they consume all of our attention, turn our heads completely away from the bleakness! In effect, we have demanded that our entertainment be the col.
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- WHAT DOES UNIVERSE DO
It took billions of years to make an Earth, and only took a few millions to make a human, and then only twenty thousands to make a human that didn't have to hunt all the time, and then only a few thousand years for radio, and then fifty for television, and thirty for the internet. Yes, we're small, and space is very, very big. But, ultimately, it doesn't matter which telescope you look up. The most complex thing we've ever seen the universe make is looking up that telescope.
