I am endlessly fascinated by the idea of entropy. It suggests that not only is the universe indifferent to our presence, it is at least mildly hostile to it. We are low-entropy creatures trying hopelessly to swim upstream in a universe that’s gradually winding down towards a maximum-entropy heat death. So the universe itself is, in a sense, Slightly Evil. So by some sort of fractal logic, as little subsets of the universe, our true nature is probably slightly evil as well
Rereading this essay from Venkatesh Rao and it definitely makes you think. I’d wager that humanity collectively is slightly “good” on average, but perhaps the average individual is a tiny bit “evil” in a holistic sense
Happy holidays my friends