Thursday, February 23, 2023

We Must Look up


We live in a physical universe. As we go about our daily lives we’ve replaced that one reality with our self-made worlds and human constructs and really haven’t the time to try to understand the universe we actually live in. Rather than calling it truth and reality we call it science, we poke fun at it, and then get back to our self-made worlds - money, wealth, religion, ‘power’, prestige, nation - all of it human construct, none of it real.

Most of us do not understand our actual reality even at a most basic level - the planet we live on, where we are at in the solar system, our nearest neighbors in space, even just a rudimentary understanding of our climate, our world. What in the world does that have to do with your relationship with your boss, your annual salary, Taylor Swift, sport teams, position and rank, country and/or religion? Most of us drive cars we have almost no understanding of - so why do we need to understand our universe, our climate, our actual reality?

Well - because we don’t live in medieval Europe or on the plains of Africa scavenging for food anymore. We live in a world of nuclear weapons, climate change, international interdependence, and complete and total dependence on technology that we have almost no understanding of. Just as important we live in a universe of incredible beauty - a beauty just beginning to reveal itself to us through scientific endeavor that we rob ourselves of knowing and experiencing in our purposeful childish self-imposed ignorance.

The world is going to shit. Its time we wake up and grow up. We cannot permit ourselves to live in make believe, magic, and ignorance anymore - or we will perish. Climate change is real - most of us while acknowledging it do not understand it and do very little about it. It is going to wreak havoc on civilization and soon - we need to get out of our own heads and come to realize how small and fragile our planet really is, and do something, now.

Nuclear weapons are real. What is not real is nation - cant see it from space because it only exists in our heads. Furthermore it’s fantasy - all the nations of the world are now and have for quite some time been completely dependent on each other - there really is no longer us and them. The idea of nations is fantasy. Most of your American car was not made in America. Why is this important? Because as long as we insist on living in fantasy and isolation, a we vs. them mindset, we are incredibly susceptible to full scale nuclear war.

It is one world. Educating yourself about how it actually works is not really a choice anymore. It’s the only path to getting out of our own heads and make believe worlds and doing something about our reality.

If we ‘don’t look up’ and do so now - we perish. 

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