Consider this; You are no longer a victim of a broken system; you are a participant in a challenging one.

The hidden, entropic cost of "progress". Have you ever wondered why some architectural marvels and inventions from centuries or even millenia ago cannot be fully replicated with modern technology? Or why is building or making them considered too "inefficient" today, and was not hundreds and thousands of years ago when resources were much more difficult to procure, learned architects harder to find and logistics, tools etc. allegedly far less advanced? Why is the expressive potential of languages seemingly becoming less add less utilized? It would suffice to open a book in English written in the 19th century and the one written today to notice the difference. Yet, we have more functionally literate people than ever. And much greater academic output, but with hardly any significant breakthroughs. Why are so many people more busy than the medieval serfs but with having less to show for it? Why is the quality of almost everything deteriorating to the point where some things that were considered cheap centuries ago are now considered luxury? Where are the great statesmen, poets, inventors, military leaders and other capable people of the past? Why are we ruled by incompetent clowns and the lowest common denominator? Why is the AI that some are superfluously calling "super intelligent" supposedly making most of its users more 'stupid'? Why are people more atomized and their relationships more superficial than ever despite being more "interconnected" than ever? There are many other examples, however these should be enough to establish a pattern. What actually happens is that the system is not introducing any negative entropy (falsely implied by the notion of progress), but redistributing the existing negentropy to sustain itself. Some of the mechanisms involved are the following: 1. Reduction of the informational density or depth of the average dynamic node and forced homogenization of the outliers (social, economic and other types of conditioning or elimination when it comes to people) 2. The thinning of the volume of the connections between the nodes (their relationships), whether it be between the people (dynamic nodes) or between the people and objects as static nodes. For example, repairing your leather shoes was quite common a century ago, products lasted for much longer etc. 3. The expansion of the system boundaries and the increase of the number of connections (e. g. various blocs, multiculturalism, economic expansion, logarithmic scaling etc.). 4. The concentration of the internal control of the system at the decreasing number of increasingly saturated nodes while others are desaturated, converging towards one. In other words, their "god" did not create the universe, but is its logical conclusion (if left to its internal mechanisms alone) However, this process is not enough to sustain it forever, as we can see with the second law of thermodynamics... The Ouroboros eventually completely devours itself. Real Gods are still out there however, and for some, within. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_0gama-E8dg

Materialism doesn't justify its existence and nihilism is a psyop meant to deprive you of your goals while they pursue theirs. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6eLj_IcdhhM There are other empirical examples that point towards an immaterial aspect of existence, such as the application of the Fourier transforms and the extremely low probability for the spontaneous assembly of complex life within the time frame of the energetic "life-cycle" of the universe, however listing and explaining all of them would be excessive for the purpose of this article. In a purely deterministic, causal, material existence, not only is any notion of the observer completely redundant (unnecessary, excessive and systematically unjustified) but there is no room for consciousness or reflection either because that requires an offset from the causal mechanism itself. A shift in perspective, no matter how small. Which is only possible in a probabilistic (stochastic) environment, and any such environment/system (especially in its blank/unactualized state) requires external influences (multiple) to collapse the chain of states in any particular direction and for there to be enough such directions to reflect from each other, even if the offset between their outward configurations and/or time instances is minimal. For now we should note that this offset can be angular (derived) and intermittently phase synchronized (independent) because there is a qualitative difference between the types of observers. The actual system only appears to be deterministic because of the gradual entrainment and phase-synchronization (coagula). The threads of fate are not fully predetermined, they require the Norns to weave them. In a purely material existence, every function, even the most complex ones, could be executed without anyone or anything being aware of it or subjectively reflecting on it. You could have entire cities of p-zombies and there would be no loss of function whatsoever. On the contrary, it would be even more efficient! And would there actually be any passage of time if all the variables are known? Or would it all resolve instantaneously, just as some subatomic particles can know the state of another regardless of their distance? By observing the natural world, we can notice that almost all of its systems, especially the biological ones, are highly optimized to function within their neighboring physical environments. And the natural world rewards energy efficiency, which doesn't permit much of a margin for great evolutionary leaps, whims or mutation risks. Consciousness, as some of us may experience it, self-awarenes and what's generally considered to be sapience are completely alien to a deterministic, materialistic system. What purpose does a music taste, philosophy, game, art, or a plethora of other mental and unnecessary physical activities serve there? The last straw of the materialist is nihilism, and not even the kind where the objective meanings are relative or inherently missing, but complete absurdism. However, given the two competing views that are internally consistent, the one that can justify itself will always have a greater degree of truthfulness and dominance, even if there are no absolute objective truths. People who have the capacity for greater aspirations, quality and degree of freedom (not to be confused with vain pseudo-individualism and degeneracy) are often discouraged from pursuing their goals by being presented with a society that's absurd by design and being told that such a state is perfectly natural. Which is a psyop created by those who could never reach the same heights, to maintain their parasitic system. Lower life forms such as the ants and the pigs do not feel a need to justify or explain their existence, romanticize/glorify it or to "cope" with it, that seems to be exclusive to the higher life. Including the various whims and romances of the higher Ego, that can even be very destructive and contrary to the purely biological criteria. But without which, the higher life as we know it wouldn't be possible.