The more I learn about history, the more horrified I am about humans.

I used to really love history and learning about it, but the last few months I've become extremely depressed. I've realised human history is nothing more than a struggle for conquest. Romans or Germans. Catholic or Protestant. The entire history of the human race is one of mass suffering. The powerful inflict their will upon the weak. The result? Genocide, starvation, war, disease etc. It make me so fucking depressed to think about how fucked our species is and how much suffering we inflict generation after generation

>>17839121 (OP)
I wouldn't go that far. There are a lot of really cool things in history and literature too, not just the fact that life was nasty, brutish, and short. I just am glad I was born in this era and no other.

The sooner you accept that this has always been and always will be the natural state of humans, instead of thinking of it as some horrible abnormality, the better it will be for your mental health. And you can additionally cope with it by remembering these facts:
>it's not just humans, it's quite normal for other animal species has the capability to be fucking vicious and unempathetic and eat their own offspring and shit
>you and everyone else still has the choice to do good and help those in need, not because you think you'll be praised and rewarded for it but because it genuinely makes you feel good at the end of the day

>>17839121 (OP)
Read Nietzsche and you won't be so depressed

>>17839121 (OP)
You have to embrace the struggle for power to find happiness in the world

blud it's not that deep. Just beat off and play some videos gams and stop worrying about it

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>>17839137
Nietzschefags are retarded. Platitudes like this will never ever help anybody

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>>17839121 (OP)
That ignores all the long boring periods of peace with nothing happening. Some parts of medieval Europe went multiple generations without ever seeing a war.