The earth is a ball of solid rock with a molten core ~6,500km in diameter, with a thin, layer of air of about 10km sticking precariously to it. Beyond, it’s harsh vacuum and hard radiation. About 0.15%. That thin layer and a modest magnetic field are all that sustains life.
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We go from needing it a lot but not appreciating it enough to not needing it much but appreciating it a lot. That’s the irony of the human condition: we carefully skirt its essence as we chart our courses from cradle to grave. Suspicious of the very atmosphere that sustains us.
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Makes me sad at our spiritual stupidity. Many go through life entirely dismissing this substance of humanity as mere superficiality that can be dispensed with, and then fruitlessly search for substance elsewhere, only to be disappointed at the vast emptiness of “deeper” things.
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And this is why I have such a strong reaction to the Trump era. Personally it has barely affected my life in any major way. But at the same time, it feels like a steady, relentless, and fundamentally pointless poisoning of the substance of humanity, and calling it “strength”
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