A Quote from The Talos Principle 2
Pandora
The truth cannot be pursued or uncovered, it can only be found where it has already taken root.
More quotes from The Talos Principle 2
The beauty of the universe and the beauty of what we can accomplish within it are two related but separate things, and the separation matters.
God appears, and God is light,
to those poor souls who well in night,
but does a human form display,
to those who dwell in realms of day.
Is it possible that on some level, people want to believe that everything's going to get worse? That it's comforting to think that humanity is bad and every solution will just go wrong? Because that way, you're never responsible. You never have to take on responsibility for anything outside yourself and never have to grow up.
We live in a decaying system, which in turn produces ideologies of decay to justify its existence.
No matter what cultural signifiers they get packaged with, these ideologies come down to the same material result: a future in which for the average person there is less of everything. To paraphrase Mark Fisher, we find it easier to imagine the decline of civilization than to imagine a civilization worth living in.
User tried to make changes to their own device settings which could result in an infinite regress and/or omnipotence. There is only room for one god around here.