People are incredibly arrogant. They think that all they need do is shake their head in scorn at anything they don’t understand, or for which no scientific explanation exists, make some derisive comment, ignore their intuition, and their vision of a world in which they are in absolute control of their own destiny remains safe.
Which is precisely what many do when it comes to questions about the moon. That something so far away can have such a dramatic impact on the behavior of so many simply boggles their minds. It casts a veil of doubt on their safe little view of reality. Sadly such close minded people are often able to impose their narrow minded thinking on their children.
The moon… it hovers overhead, held in place by a force scientists explained through the use of created mathematical formulae. Gravity.
Yet no one truly understands what gravity actually is.
Forget about the apparent fact that gravity exists, and tell me why gravity exists. You don’t need to tell me what gravity is, I know. What I don’t know, is why gravity is.
Once you’ve accomplished that, which you’ll never manage, I’d like you to reconsider this imprecise sentence. You’ll notice an assertion about another non-specific, namely time itself. Which will then become your next topic of research.
I’d really appreciate you explaining why Time is. But in the matter of time, let me be the first to admit I don’t even know what it is, even though it still controls every aspect of my life.
Why?
Why did I write this post? Because for the last few days I’ve been angry and miserable. But I didn’t know why until someone called me on it. On impulse, I looked up the current phase of the moon. I know what I did, and what I found, but I still don’t know why.
I fear modern humanity has already lost more knowledge than it will ever gain.
