Why do normies think they'll matter in the year 2124?

[Ambivalent1]

If they know they won't matter, then why do they care about so many trivial things like self improvement or the choices that others make?

 

[ijustwishtodie]

Not all of them know that they won't matter after their death. Some people talk about procreating to create a legacy and these people genuinely think that they'll be remembered 100 years down the line. Though, I'll admit that perhaps some normies probably acknowledge that they don't matter in the long run but still participate in things like self improvement because they exist right now and they want to make their life as enjoyable as possible. Sure, they may not matter after their death but they still want to have the best life possible whilst they are alive

 

[Ambivalent1]

Not all of them know that they won't matter after their death. Some people talk about procreating to create a legacy and these people genuinely think that they'll be remembered 100 years down the line. Though, I'll admit that perhaps some normies probably acknowledge that they don't matter in the long run but still participate in things like self improvement because they exist right now and they want to make their life as enjoyable as possible. Sure, they may not matter after their death but they still want to have the best life possible whilst they are alive

Why do they think their great grand children will care about them? All they'll be to them are dead pictures on a wall.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

Why do they think their great grand children will care about them? All they'll be to them are dead pictures on a wall.

That is something I don't understand either. Perhaps it has something to do with the human ego?

 

[cosmic-freedom]

Inflated self importance and forgetting that they are a mere insect in the grand scheme of this universe.

 

[sserafim]

Ego ego ego

That is something I don't understand either. Perhaps it has something to do with the human ego?

Spot on, as well as narcissism and delusions of grandeur