I liked learning how to program because it felt like I made the world stop spinning in a very fast pace. It felt kind of like putting my claws into the rotating orb and making it move slower.
My friend and I were discussing the loss of knowledge when we no longer reinvent the wheel; the vastness of human knowledge and industrial science is so complex now that most people dont know how to reinvent most things. I have no idea how to write binary code and speak to the machines if all compilers stop working.
But I know how to write code that the compilers compile. So that is nice