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And while not the dictionary definition of cruel since it has no motive, I think the feeling of metaphoric cruelty is there in that if you need to protect yourself from the universe, so I think it's pedantic to complain about that wording as well.

Right. I don't have much information on nihilism beyond "life is suffering", and I'm not sure it applies to these Pop-Nihilists. But I'm sure they world argue that no external entity is needed to deem the universe as cruel. If I were to make a guess, I'd say they would likely refer to the laws of nature in place of the universe, deeming "nature" (if you will) as cruel, or at least uncaring. Tough, this would be far from the initial "life is suffering" claim, I'm sure it would entail some form of effect nature has on the human psyche (e.g. causality/determinism and with that certain unappealing emotions like hopelessness or frustration). If anyone knows more or would tend to disagree, please let me know :)

All in all good meme, but not very coherent critique, in my opinion

I'm not implying your worries are not valid, but I've never understood this perspective. From my point of view, an uncaring universe is freeing. We have no responsibility to any great power, and are free to choose our own path.

While I feel your fear, I don't understand how people come to this conclusion or how this fear is created in them. If you look around you, at least 90% of the issues we suffer from everyday are caused by ourselves or other selfish people. War, climate change, poverty, violence and greed all are caused by humans with free will. I even wished these didnt had human causes because knowing there was no way it couldn't happen could made enduring it a lot easier. I would say it's more accurate to say that the universe is neutral instead of uncaring, because as dangerous space is, earth is a large and safe home for us and other creatures. Earth has the ozone layer that protects us from dangerous high enegry radiations, earth has a large magnetic field which protects us from most solar storms, earth has a thick atmosphere that protects us from 99.9999% of astroids. And it's not just earth, Jupiter because of it's immense gravity alters astroid paths away from earth. You can search about "Jupiter cosmic vacuum cleaner" to find more about this. While in the past earth's surface has been devastated by cataclysmic events multiple times, life moved on, and dinosaurs lived for a million years before being wiped out. Maybe I misunderstood what people mean by "the universe"

Boom! Roasted

It's kinda meta and more than a little dumb. The "joke" of the subway meme is to have the text have nothing to do with subway, and to show obvious evidence of lots of edits and compression, like there was a back-and-forth argument. Idk why.

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