On The Measurement of Thought: Part II, the Big Bang

The search for a path through life

Photo: There are many hundreds of galaxies visible in this photograph from the Webb telescope. The photo represents a very tiny portion of the sky. It looks like this in every direction one can see.

We could take nature so differently.

It’s an educator in every way, not just in the way that shamans and primitive peoples would have us believe – although they are much closer, I think, to the truth than we non-tribal and faux-tribal westerners are with our modernist principles.

In the end, we even know this, especially the younger people (Gen X and on); and so, having destroyed all the tribes, and the traditional knowledge around us, we’ve created new and somewhat bogus new tribes of our own, to try and paste together Humpty Dumpty. Never mind that tribes require thousands of years of tradition which has been thrown by the wayside and can't be manufactured, sewn together out of whole cloth in China; our modern ersatz tribes are the beginning of an effort to glue allegory, analogy, and mystery back onto the pathetic, sterilized superstructures of steel and glass which we’ve created all around us in our “modern” world as we extinct the biological one we rely on for life with such ruthless efficiency.