We live on the skin of a rock spinning though space at unfathomable speeds.
As Evangelista Torricelli pointed out, "We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air."
The organism that you are can withstand the temperature range 81°F to 95°F without technology - if there's no wind or humidity .
Change the boundary layer and you throw off the entire organism.
For us, the range of life is very narrow.
Our ability to sheath ourselves in various layers of materials expands our range substantially, but the truth remains...
If you travel too far down into the skin of the rock you will die from pressure. (Shout out to class traitor b-killer Stockton Rush.)
And if you travel too far up the skin of the rock, you die from oxygen-starvation or cold.
The organism that we are lives on the boundary layer of a rock flying through space.
Into the Abyss. Creatures of the Midwater by
We share this place with the creatures in the video above, who experience reality in a truly different way than we do.
Just think about the jelly fish.
How does the jellyfish interpret light, sound, and pressure?
The creature that clones itself and lives forever in the dark?
What does the squid know about your version of planet earth?
We put too much faith and trust in our own perceptions and the stories we've told to cooperate with and coerce each other over the centuries.
The clever thing would be to take a step back and spend some real time understanding where we are before we irreparably change anything.
But you know, we're apes with sensitive tongues, grown on the skin of a planet just the right distance from the sun. So maybe we're doing the best we can?
Get out of your umwelt and interact with different organisms.
Expand your map.
Only big perspective shifts can save us.
