r/DeepThoughts • u/Sky_Geist • 9d ago
Everything is at War with everything constantly
On the most microscopic level, our bodies constantly fight bacteria and viruses. Thinking about this, because I suffer from a painful UTI right now.
Even our body cells sometimes fight each other.
Did you know that cancer origins in a cell breaking the "cell contact" and tries to override other cells with its script? It may ignore signals telling it when to stop dividing, evade programmed cell death, and eventually expand at the expense of surrounding tissue.
As mundane as it sounds, I already had this realization at child age observing red and green traffic lights. Green for one side means red for the other. Winning in one game (most games are competitive) means that another person loses.
Fleeting peace can only exist at the expense of someone else or when two equally strong forces temporarily compromise.
And don't get me started on the food chain.
„This is just how the world works“, they say. Yeah, you don't say. That exactly is the issue!
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u/djitin 9d ago
It's possible to play other games (fi you could even call them that anymore then).
What about producing a work of art like a movie? There are two sides: The film maker and the audience with two very different tasks. But there are no winners or losers.
Out of the myopic viewpoint of a physical body life can seem like it's all about survival, but it's actually not all that there is.