They’re doing the best they can.

Because that’s literally all we know how to do. Each day, we wake up and set out to experience the world with some sort of conception of the what the nature of reality is… and through living our lives, we test that conception… then, inevitably, something about that conception fails at some point or another in one way or another, and so… we revise and do it all over again. To exist as a conscious being in the world is to go through this process; a perpetual series of negations and revisions that is constantly going on whether or not it is reflected upon… one negation after the other [Hegelian Phenomenology]. The good news is that this process of existence itself seems to imply some sort of upward mobility where each next proof is better than the last.

So maybe you’re a crazy jerk. All there is to know there is that you simply haven’t figured out how not to be a crazy jerk yet.

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