John Martinez on Nostr: We pride ourselves on being sophisticated animals—clever toolmakers and relentless ...
We pride ourselves on being sophisticated animals—clever toolmakers and relentless innovators. It’s this ingenuity, we believe, that sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. We clothe ourselves, build machines to save time and energy, and yet, somehow, we remain deaf to the relentless squeaking of a far more profound wheel.
Not the wheels of our cars or the gears driving the machines that sustain modern life, but a wheel few of us see or acknowledge. The wheel that, for all our intelligence, makes us no different from a hamster running endlessly in its cage.
The hamster’s wheel is innocent—it spins for exercise, for a fleeting distraction. Ours, however, is far more sinister, propelling us in a ceaseless race toward ambitions we barely understand.
The hamster wouldn’t even have a wheel to run on, were it not for us—the inventors of its cage.
What does that say about the wheels we’ve built for our selves?
Not the wheels of our cars or the gears driving the machines that sustain modern life, but a wheel few of us see or acknowledge. The wheel that, for all our intelligence, makes us no different from a hamster running endlessly in its cage.
The hamster’s wheel is innocent—it spins for exercise, for a fleeting distraction. Ours, however, is far more sinister, propelling us in a ceaseless race toward ambitions we barely understand.
The hamster wouldn’t even have a wheel to run on, were it not for us—the inventors of its cage.
What does that say about the wheels we’ve built for our selves?