@uncle-beanbag-mojave In a setting where spirits are provably real and have a tangible impact on the world, how does "progress beyond the mysticism" make any more sense than "progress beyond the law of gravity" or "progress beyond needing to compromise with other species"?
If 'Humanity Fuck Yeah' means either exterminating spirits or subjugating them or walling them off from the physical world entirely, then that would have to be humanity's solution for everything else that isn't humanity. If human expands into the stars, any alien nation they encounter would also have to be walled off, exterminated, or enslaved.
Furthermore, the Avatar's connection to all past Avatars was a wellspring of knowledge, a library. Celebrating the destruction of that link is like cheering to see the Library of Alexandria burn to the ground.
If you cut a rope that was tied around your ankle, you are free. This remains true even if the rope was the only thing keeping you from FREELY falling to your death.
Freedom from all restraints means destroying all forms of structure, which leaves you with an absence of any form of security or purpose.
Freedom is no more an absolute good than structure is.
To live is to be subject to forces you did not choose and cannot ignore. Nature does not care if you resent being hungry, you must eat, and nature will not provide you food for free.
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