When I want to feel a sheer sense of vertigo, I remind myself that "modern" humans have only had written language for ~1/10th of their existence*. And then, some (probably smallish) set of people invented it! Then: now! Ahh!
*as far as we know; depending on how exactly you count
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This is good! My vertigo generator is thinking about how there are orders of magnitude more stars in the galaxy than seconds you'll be alive and that many galaxies as well, each with as many stars.
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If there were ever a more appropriate time for the 🤯 emoji, I know it not.
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The stars leave me cold
But one truth blinds like a sun:
We’ve only begun.
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