Peak Human Achievement? Please.
Right, so apparently someone decided plummeting from nearly two and a half miles in the air while strapped to a glorified kite is now considered worthy of record-breaking status. Daredevil, they call him. More like Daringly Idiotic, if you ask me. Twenty thousand, nine hundred and forty-five feet! Really? We’re celebrating this? As if dangling from a precipice isnt perilous enough, we need to add velocity and wind chill for extra measure?
I mean, I get it, attention is currency these days. But the sheer audacity of presenting this as a triumph of human ingenuity… It’s breathtakingly tiresome. Did we run out of actual progress to celebrate? Are Nobel Prizes now awarded for successfully avoiding tripping over a potted plant?
Seriously, think about it! This isnt innovation; its a carefully orchestrated display designed solely to generate fleeting internet clicks and inspire teenagers to do equally ill-advised things. It’s a spectacle of risk aversion disguised as bravery, meticulously planned and executed with enough safety protocols to make a NASA mission blush.
Meanwhile, doctors are working tirelessly to cure diseases, scientists are attempting to solve climate change, and this is what gets the headlines? A man falling really fast? I need a nap.
