Figuring Forward in an Uncertain World
Something fundamental in our culture has ended. What exactly, I can’t quite put my finger on. As many things in the liminal, it’s hard to grasp. But if we want to birth something new out of it, we have to come to terms with endings. We have to come to terms with the ultimate ending, the very thing Covid-19 forces us to look at: our inevitable... See more
Alexander Beiner • Traversing the Underworld: What Myth can Teach us During the Pandemic
The first is that it simply need not follow, from our cosmic insignificance as individuals, that our actions don’t matter. The idea that things only count if they count on the vastest scale is one more expression of our discomfort with finitude: accepting that they might count only transiently, or locally, requires us to face our limitations and
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Meditations for Mortals
What does it mean to live a finite, fragile life in an infinite, eternal universe?
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astrophileszinstagram.comMake better use of this time, use it to think about what our busy normality prevents us from considering: how did we get here, how do we want to start again? Number the days. Gain a heart of wisdom. Don’t allow all of this suffering to be in vain.