Dam it Ryan. I KNEW something big was going on last night when you were dodging all my questions. I didn't suspect this though and you were so confident that you knew what to do I just figured you wanted to deal with it on your own.
Look, I've been there. that may seen like a hollow statement but I mean it literally. I'v contemplated the futility of live in this universe for the exact same reasons you express. the majority of people are stupid and selfish, there are so many problems with our society it staggering, we face our doom at the hand of our own race. I know exactly what it means to truly understand these things. I'v thought about just ending it for the same reasons.
do you want to know why I didn't? why I almost immediately said no and dismissed it as an option? because then I wouldn't get to live, I wouldn't get to have friends, live with family, reunite with my old friend Riley and go to water world together, I wouldn't get to stretch my brain solving problems of logic and feel the elation when I find a solution. I wouldn't get to stare into the cosmos feeling my insignificance only to laugh in the face of the universe and say "ha! I'm going to MAKE myself significant!", I wouldn't get to share my life with others and make people feel important by helping them.
We're all going to die winkio, every last one of us. and when we do life will move on. and for the most part we will be forgotten in the long run. But I'll be dammed if I'm going to let that fact stop me from living to my full potential and beyond.
You face the Existentialist delima Ryan, defy reality and live, it's the absurd choice, but it's the only one thats any fun.