I am trying to figure out if the world was a better place when it was smaller. We say that it’s a small world and that technology has made it smaller, but I don’t think that’s true. I think the planet is small and that technology makes the smallness of Earth within the framework of the expansive universe totally apparent. But I also think that the world of information and possibility and communication is incomprehensibly huge. It is huge and getting huger. And this makes our tiny planet seem absolutely enormous.
There is too much to know and too much knowing at our disposal. It is distracting. It is debilitating. This has gotten me thinking that maybe things were better when world seemed smaller than it does today.
Then I realize that the fundamentals of being human haven’t changed, so the distractions of today were present yesterday, albeit in different form.
Things weren’t better when the world was smaller, they were just a little different
Illuminate Possibilities 