7th Dec 2021
The thing is - he places Life (and therefore humanity) in its right context in this immensity, which means it's not for the squeamish or the scaredy-cats or the head-under-the-blanket types who have to cling to fabricated myths and fairy stories to keep the boogeyman at bay. It is a work of art.
He begins by mapping out - yes, what is believed to be - the life span of this universe we find ourselves in, from a Beginning about 14bn years ago when it all kicked off for no knowable "reason", right through to its probable Ending in a trillion years or whatever (we have no way of getting our heads around these kinds of time spans) when the final star goes out and it all returns to being a cold dark void. With our tiny flicker of "Life" somehow springing out of the stuff of the stars in the early stages, a "Life" phenomenon that has evolved to gain thought and memory and reason and art and literature and music and humour and passion and the eternal WHY? that will never be answered this side of wherever we are going. If anywhere.
Now all this sounds terribly nihilistic, but hey, stretch your mind as far as it will go, and be that person in the image above, and take a moment to do some serious homage to the forces that are behind all of this. I know that you have bills to pay and you hate wearing a mask down the street and the roses have aphids again and yet another volcano has gone off in Indonesia, but take a moment to reflect, on the big-ness of what you are part of, and the momentary nature of it, and so embrace the whole idea that you my friend, have been given the privilege of one of these "lives".
Trev
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