Humans have an innate drive to push and challenge, to go beyond. However the machinery is all just garbled. It's designed for good functioning in a simple and natural environment, but circumstances have placed it in a wild and complicated place that is far beyond anything it was designed for. It's like if you dropped an automated space probe designed for rocky soil and vaccum into an alien jungle, and it somehow worked. On the one hand, it's a testament to its good design in the first place that it's wandering around doing some approximation of its stuff. But, on the other hand, you know it's going to fuck up and mishandle some situations because it's just not designed for that.

In this case, almost all of that drive to go beyond is being applied to incredibly frivolous and pointless projects. Almost all of the benefit (even in the weird sense that the pointless projects even have a benefit) gets given to someone else. People just keep coming in every day and building stuff, basically to no purpose. Web marketing? 720Hz? A game that will benefit no one to play? Effective propaganda to delay action on climate change? Deceptive advertising for toddlers? Oxycontin? Sure, sounds good, here's your paycheck. Even the people running the system have basically no idea why they're even doing the stuff they're doing. They're just wandering around doing their programming, probably most of their focus is on family or some other kind of activity anyway. The fact that there's something else they could be doing doesn't even really occur to them, or comes only as a passing thought, or starts to hit them once the whole thing is at its end.

Anyway, we're about to hit the point where this is all unsustainable. We'll either unfuck our priorities, take an active role in setting up the systems of effort and action in some way that's oriented towards making a livable environment for ourselves and a future, and mitigating the catastrophes we've set up for ourselves by running on autopilot up until this point, or we won't survive.

But, in the meantime, we have 720Hz monitors, so there's that.