11 November

One of the greatest illusions, I think. If you zoom out, human societies are very simple patterns. The reason we think humans are the most complex things on Earth is because we see them up close. Everything is more complex, the smaller you go, and simpler as you zoom out. The reason we seem more complex than a rock is because we’re WAY zoomed out from the trillions of particles that make up the rock. Even amongst what we call living things, the more you look through a microscope, the greater complexity life will show you. Humans themselves are just ‘zoomed out’ bacteria.