Nothing Changes
"You think humans today have any more or fewer feelings of powerlessness and terror of the world around them than they did a century, or a millennium ago?" The chamber echoes with hollow laughter. "If anything, technology has made that nightmare far more manageable, to the point where we've become numb to the fear, and a state like living death is all there is. Human beings are excellent at coping. Why do you think we developed all these distractions in the first place?"
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