Captain Kirk on continuing to challenge yourself. [Not a meme, just a cool quote]

“But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from.” - Agent Smith, The Matrix

Jesus fuck we have enough obstacles as it is!

this reminds me of the story where they grew trees in a perfect indoor environment and they all fell over.

no wind. the wind stresses the trees in a way that triggers a reaction to make some chemical or whatnot that is the structure of the tree. without the stress, they dont build enough support.

You take away all obstacles and there's nothing to get in our way of thriving. I know people want to look on the bright side of things, but there is no downside to having no problems at all (problems coming up later to challenge weaknesses is not "no problems").

Honestly, I plan on retiring to Costa Rica or some beach in Portugal or something where the most work I do is ordering another cocktail. I will, it’s true, be actively withering and dying, but I’d be doing the same if I was a door checker at Walmart, and probably a lot faster.

If anyone would like some obstalces, I think I may have picked up too many, going free

I wonder if, by obstacles, he meant morons.

Because it fits perfectly, but I'm not certain I agree with the conclusion.

Wasn't that the motivation of the villain in the third Kelvinverse timeline?

Starship troopers variant:

Our species can only survive with a shared enemy

I like that. It's deeper than it seems on first sight

Or we'll get really creative about football.

what does Kirk know about being a ship's captain, the dude never even had anyone flogged for insubordination