[lit-ideas] Re: The Unimaginable
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 14:01:16 -0500
John:
Or Calvin's response:
"Yes, we're just tiny specks on a planet particle, hurling
through the infinite blackness. . . . Let's go in and turn on all
the lights." (May 28, 1988 Calvin and Hobbes.)
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Maybe it's not about going in, but about getting out more.
Watching 1,000 miles of the East Coast flash below refutes the
sense that one has any idea of what's going on. Talk about the
parochialism of one's opinions!
Millions of barrels of oil a day--that made sense looking down
from that altitude. Whereas the systems of control that seem so
omnipresent when in one's rooms were conspicuously absent up there.
Computer chips with moss growing around them, connected by ant
trail ribbons...people living and dying and spending their whole
lives in one of those computer chips, maybe taking the ant trail
to and from work every day, maybe taking day hikes though the
moss, maybe sailing their boats on one of those silver droplets
below.
And yet when we write, we write as though we know what's going on.
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