If you want
to know where you are, just look at your feet twice.
This reminds
me of Science, and Science—given the current climate—reminds me of its
opposite: Politics.
Yup, looking
at your own feet twice is the raw material of Science, because it is an
immediate, elemental, fundamental, empirical way to figure out where you are. It
has proven effective in all twenty-four zones and in both hemispheres as a
reliable index of physical location.
This
practice can spool out into a sense of wonder (I’m standing here? Now?) which is what drives us to polish pure fact outa the cosmic
blur.
“Science
is what we have learned about how not to fool ourselves about the way the world
is. Our imagination is stretched to the utmost not, as in fiction, to imagine
things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which
are there.” - Richard Feynman
So, yes, we
have followed our feet into Science, the greatest engine of information in
human history.
We’ll get to
the politics part when we get to the politics part. Let’s first savor the
wonder that finds facts.
So let’s take
some steps and stand by:
We want to know
where we are, so we’re gonna just look
at our feet twice.
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