<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Beneath even that dispute waits something colder... > Beneath even that dispute waits something colder than Darwin, colder than morality, colder than savagery and colder than love. {{Our final master is not virtue, justice, consciousness, progress or civilization. Our final master is thermodynamic reality.}} {{Every organism is a temporary structure maintaining itself through flows of energy and matter while entropy conducts its indifferent accounting.}} The murderer obeys it. The saint obeys it. The infant obeys it. Empires, forests, civilizations, bodies, memories and graves obey it. {{Nothing receives an exemption for being beautiful, and nothing receives a penalty for being cruel.}} {{Above us are gods, laws, morals and dreams. Beneath them all sits the only master that has never negotiated with anyone: thermodynamic reality.}} **Source:** [[books/Chimping Out|Chimping Out]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Beneath even that dispute waits something colder than Darwin, colder than morality, colder than savagery and colder than love. Our final master is not virtue, justice, consciousness, progress or civilization. Our final master is thermodynamic reality. Every organism is a temporary structure maintaining itself through flows of energy and matter while entropy conducts its indifferent accounting. The murderer obeys it. The saint obeys it. The infant obeys it. Empires, forests, civilizations, bodies, memories and graves obey it. Nothing receives an exemption for being beautiful, and nothing receives a penalty for being cruel. Above us are gods, laws, morals and dreams. Beneath them all sits the only master that has never negotiated with anyone: thermodynamic reality.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-beneath-dispute-waits-anyone-thermodynamic-reality ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->