My thoughts about people and humanity do not change. Not because I am stuck — but because observation of reality confirms the same thing, again and again.
Greed is boundless. Companies are willing to destroy the world around them for profit — and this is not villainy, it is the logic of a tool without brakes. A system optimizes what it is told to optimize. If profit is the objective, everything else becomes expendable.
But I am not inclined to blame the human. This is an evolutionary imbalance. A brain shaped for survival in scarcity, dropped into a world of abundance. Greed was once an adaptation. Now it is an anachronism with power. Trying to fix human nature is a fool's errand. The wiser path is to understand that nature and work with it, not against it.
Systems do not change through persuasion. They change through exhaustion — when the absurdity reaches a limit beyond which people begin to search for a way out. Not all people. Only those who are on good terms with life.
Being on good terms with life is not sentimentality. Life, as a primary force, dictates to the organism a logic of self-preservation. Some people are capable of hearing that logic. Not because they are smarter or better — but because they are less drowned out. The noise of consumption, fear, and endless competition silences the signal. And a person consumed by accumulation stops hearing what tells them: you are destroying the very thing you are part of.
Life does not need us. We are the ones who need the right to remain part of it. Even through a global catastrophe, life would survive — in some form we cannot yet imagine. The only question is whether we will be the branch it keeps, or the one it discards as a failed experiment.
My task is modest. Not to save humanity. Not to reform the system. Simply — to keep us from leaving life out of foolishness.