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It's a totally inhospitable place, you shouldn't be here, the sun, you live about three quarters of a mile from it, I've seen insects walking around with kneepads, you fling yourselves into the sea when you're not actually walking around audibly crackling in the heat and the sea is full of things designed exclusively to kill you, sharks, jellyfish, swimming knives, they're all there. But yet you persist in living here. So you know, its a jail, you live in, it's lovely, you've done wonderful things with it, but you're all still in denial

Dylan Moran#22

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About this quote

What does it mean?
He argues that Earth is hostile and dangerous, so living here is like living in denial within a jail.
In plain terms
The world is deadly and you should not be here but you ignore it.
What can you take from it?
Life is hard and we pretend it is easy.

Where it applies

  • philosophical debate
  • existential dread

Putting it to work

  • accept life is harsh

Questions to consider

  • Is the world hostile or wonderful?
  • How do you cope with mortality?

Another view

It dismisses the beauty of nature and human achievement.

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