thornography
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Through most of my 20’s, I lived in New Hampshire (and occasionally, Vermont). In New Hampshire, at night, when you look up at the sky, you can see a lot of stars. After many nights spent looking up at those stars, I began to realize that there was a whole hell of a lot more darkness than light. The more I thought about space, the universe, and our place in it, the more I realized that 99.99999% of the universe is inimical to anything that I thought good: life, love, hope, laughter. If you were dropped nake
But it was even worse than that, because there’s also this thing called entropy, and it’s boss. The second law of thermodynamics says that entropy always increases, it’s the only inexorable force in the universe. Anything you might do, any work you might effect, any force you might exert to counter this force just screws you over even faster, driving the universe that much closer to its inevitable terminus, the state of “heat death,” its final, constant, maximal, and homogeneous state of entropy.
thornography