{"product_id":"the-tragedy-of-sentience","title":"The Tragedy of Sentience","description":"\u003cp\u003eHumanity is, and has always been at a crossroads whereby the awareness of the futility of our lives continuously grows as time passes. What I mean by this is that throughout the natural course of life, it becomes quickly apparent that we are temporal beings etching out for ourselves an existence that is likely futile for the sake of living. Mankind does not often reflect enough on just how savage the world around us truly is. Though there is beauty to be found in the song of a bird, that same animal is predatory in nature and possesses those traits which would seem to be destructive.\u003cbr\u003e\nCharles Darwin, in his eponymous work The Origin of Species, puts it thusly: ÒWe  behold  the  face  of  nature  bright with  gladness,  we  often  see  superabundance  of  food;  we  do not  see,  or  we  forget,  that  the  birds  which  are  idly  singing round  us  mostly  live  on  insects  or  seeds,  and  are  thus  constantly destroying  life;  or  we  forget  how  largely  these  songsters, or  their  eggs,  or  their  nestlings,  are  destroyed  by  birds and  beasts  of  prey;  we  do  not  always  bear  in  mind,  that, though  food  may  be  now  superabundant,  it  is  not  so  at  all seasons  of  each  recurring  year.Ó \u003cbr\u003e\nThere is always a sense of the limited nature of resources, as well as of our nature. Our ability to utilize the will, limited though it is, is one example among many of the futility of human existence. This is not to say that certain philosophies cannot find something worthy in human life, but when focusing on the void of the conceptualization of the eternal, it becomes apparent that we are extremely insignificant in the grand scheme of things.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas MacDonald","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44931180691617,"sku":"9781387844241","price":38.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/7meg94-front-shortedge-384_e62d177f-183f-4a7f-874a-b4c0e973ccf6.jpg?v=1748305519","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/the-tragedy-of-sentience","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}