Music, love, grace, quantum mechanics, string theory, any language other than the one they’ve been immersed in. That list is long.
In a macro sense, maybe it’s the lack of understanding of how interconnected everything is, how magnificent this planet is, and, at the same time, how impersonal and disinterested it is. The natural forces at work in the world have no regard for us and our needs and wants and lack of attention and care and understanding. We as human beings are always trying to figure things out, trying to make it through the day, trying to domesticate and tailor our surroundings, ignoring the warning signs, or just taking things for granted, while the earth and the forces and systems at work simply… are.
Perhaps most damning of all is, through ignorance or self-serving motivations, the willingness of enough of us to carry on as if our sheer numbers and what we’ve loosed in the way of imbalance and despoiling are having no effect on the planetary systems that keep us alive.
We certainly have filled the earth and seemingly subdued it. But we really haven’t subdued anything. Maybe what many still don’t understand is that we’re paving the way for our own demise. The earth isn’t too big to fail us, and it might be wounded. But it’s resilient enough to still be here, to still be turning long after we’ve sealed our own fate, and this in no small part because we chose not to understand.
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