on perspective

and harnessing our meaning-making ability

raw, unfiltered thoughts from my brain

wait what?

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the destination makes the journey. (use of period for intense thought)

what does that meannnnnnnnnnn

it means that we make sense of the past by seeing its effects on the present and the future. no one kneww the french revolution was the french revolution until after the french revolution when we all said oh ya that was totally a revolution.

part of my ability to find happiness is to look at my past, specifically stuff that i found super hard at the time, and develop a more gracful interpretation because of how it's helped me grow.

but if im being honest, what i really like about this idea is how it's really the different perspective that makes the new relationship possible. so im gonna talk mostly about that because i think its a deeper thread. destination makes journey will be folded in doe.

playing with perspective is insane. and its made possible by our human nature. we are subjective beings. we attach meaning to everything. if you've read anything else on this site you'll know Dostoyevsky was the one who really made that so obvious for me (Zosima's duel, his decaying odor). but another example is nature. some people experience nature and feel more one with their experience, some are scared, some are indifferent. same objective thing, radically different meaning attached.

this means we can also select the meaning and therefore our relationship with our entire experience.

this story is a way to change our perspective towards our shortcomings as a society and find the beauty in where were at now. imagine if you had to tell some very advanced civilzation what its like to live on earth. for me, this really puts our times in perspective. i feel like we've come so much closer to aligning with our true nature then we've ever been mostly because of how much easier it is to survive now (this is very unfortunately not true for all people. but there is a lot of awareness being raised to this and its only through our advancements that we are even able to care for people we don't recognize as our kin. and honestly thats a big reason why i believe well get there. because we do show care for others once our survival needs have been met)

*side note: its kind of cool how i keep saying "how we were meant to be, our natural pure state" but at every point in our evolution our highest and most natural state has been different. and it will likely be different in 1000 years. we can only fathom what it would be like to live in a world with another massive advancement and how that would change everything.

offering this new perspective gives us a chance to make an evolutionary connection to things that we (or at least definitely i) would change if i could. and ill say changes to my wiring cause were all subject to the same human nature that manifests itself on a small scale like relationships and large scale like the way we organize ourselves. all manifestations of the same nature (story for another day)

the aliens give us a different mirror through which we can look at the leftover survival mechanisms still running that cause us to suffer to have our needs met. science-like rigor applied to analyzing how these surival mechanisms impact our ability to find our true nature gives us a different mirror to analyze the scienctific process with respect to empirical observation. stick figures demonstrating the inate strengths and weaknesses of human nature challenge our ability to extract a meaningful message from unaesthetic mediums. acceptance of the shortcomings of language allow us to consider what connection truly means. and while the prism would be another choice made to further this point, that is actually a real thing that happened to me that caused me to challenge that exact thing.

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