ELSEWHERE: Your Life Is Even More Meaningless Than You Thought

ELSEWHERE: Your Life Is Even More Meaningless Than You Thought September 4, 2013

Science has done much to improve humanity’s lot in life, but it’s done an awful lot to humble us, too. (For example, highlighting our puniness in light of the scope of the universe, or revealing that maybe we’re not as different and unique from other animals as we thought we might be.) And now Dave Goldberg offers us several reasons for why we shouldn’t even exist, claiming that we’re “nothing but impurities in an otherwise beautifully simple universe.”


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