Have you seen?
Whenever I'm driving on the highway and a plane cruises low overhead it hits me. Behold humanity! With our steel birds and rolling pods and our artificial veins crisscrossing the world in tarmac. Our metal and glass hives plying at the sky like titanic termite colonies. How blankly we accept this impossible reality and go about our lives.
And cell phones. Everyone carries a tiny amulet that, at a touch, suddenly springs alive and words made out of light appear on its surface, like some kind of technological familiar, relaying data from anywhere at once, sound, images, what have you, and we don't even comprehend the insanity of it. And that's nothing next to
And the fact we've learned to transmit data as radio waves. We're exploiting the minute properties of the universe. Like how we exploit gravity to move, to walk, to push off this massive chunk of matter using two alternating appendages and thereby relocate ourselves in three dimensional space. How we exploit the vibrations of air to communicate, to designate different frequencies as sounds and then attach meaning to them. How we exploit the nature of death to craft the gun - in the end you have a tiny, handheld instrument that fires a tiny pellet in such a way that can efficiently cause critical, pinpoint damage to a human body, thus resulting in a total shutdown of all vital systems and elimination of that being from the playing field of reality.
Isn't it fascinating?
And humanity aside, the earth itself is fantastical. Nature, life, rather. The brain is a collection of electrified tissues. Somehow, this is capable of storing data and overseeing all the operations of a life form. Look at a tree as if you're seeing it for the first time on another planet - suddenly it's the most alien design you can conceive, tendriled and plated and chaotic, blooming upward in an antigravitational fashion with its blazing green extremities.
What a voice the crickets have.
And cell phones. Everyone carries a tiny amulet that, at a touch, suddenly springs alive and words made out of light appear on its surface, like some kind of technological familiar, relaying data from anywhere at once, sound, images, what have you, and we don't even comprehend the insanity of it. And that's nothing next to
And the fact we've learned to transmit data as radio waves. We're exploiting the minute properties of the universe. Like how we exploit gravity to move, to walk, to push off this massive chunk of matter using two alternating appendages and thereby relocate ourselves in three dimensional space. How we exploit the vibrations of air to communicate, to designate different frequencies as sounds and then attach meaning to them. How we exploit the nature of death to craft the gun - in the end you have a tiny, handheld instrument that fires a tiny pellet in such a way that can efficiently cause critical, pinpoint damage to a human body, thus resulting in a total shutdown of all vital systems and elimination of that being from the playing field of reality.
Isn't it fascinating?
And humanity aside, the earth itself is fantastical. Nature, life, rather. The brain is a collection of electrified tissues. Somehow, this is capable of storing data and overseeing all the operations of a life form. Look at a tree as if you're seeing it for the first time on another planet - suddenly it's the most alien design you can conceive, tendriled and plated and chaotic, blooming upward in an antigravitational fashion with its blazing green extremities.
What a voice the crickets have.