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"I think most of the time we live our lives in this weird state of delusion, where we view everything we see around us as solid or permanent. It’s always been there, and it always will.
Change is slow; a new building gets put up where there used to be nothing, urban sprawl expands, but whatever it is, it usually happens slowly enough for us to process the change.
But really, we’re like the oblivious ants in an anthill. That’s how I always look at it.
If you see an anthill sitting in a field, to the ants living and working there, that’s always existed. For the few weeks or months that an ant has been alive, that hill has always been there and I’m sure they assume it’s always going to be there. Then, one day a little boy is walking through that field, and for a goof he decides to stomp on it. Then to those ants, nothing is ever the same again.
We’re all aware somehow that catastrophic change is possible, and that it’s happened to past civilizations like the Volcano that killed everyone in Pompeii, or the Tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands a couple years ago, or even the meteor that killed all the dinosaurs, but until you’ve caught a glimpse of something like that it sort of just bounces around your brain like an abstract concept.
Live it up, bitches. This shit ain’t gonna last."
Change is slow; a new building gets put up where there used to be nothing, urban sprawl expands, but whatever it is, it usually happens slowly enough for us to process the change.
But really, we’re like the oblivious ants in an anthill. That’s how I always look at it.
If you see an anthill sitting in a field, to the ants living and working there, that’s always existed. For the few weeks or months that an ant has been alive, that hill has always been there and I’m sure they assume it’s always going to be there. Then, one day a little boy is walking through that field, and for a goof he decides to stomp on it. Then to those ants, nothing is ever the same again.
We’re all aware somehow that catastrophic change is possible, and that it’s happened to past civilizations like the Volcano that killed everyone in Pompeii, or the Tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands a couple years ago, or even the meteor that killed all the dinosaurs, but until you’ve caught a glimpse of something like that it sort of just bounces around your brain like an abstract concept.
Live it up, bitches. This shit ain’t gonna last."