The World Is Big

We live in synthetic worlds of our own perceptions; we create mental models of our worlds from these perceptions and live within these worlds. We do this as individuals. We do this in groups. We do this in every way.

But the world is greater than the sum of our perceptions. As our knowledge within our synthetic worlds increases, we do not know whether we actually pull in more from the real world around us.

So while some people think the world has become smaller... it hasn't. Our synthetic worlds, created from our perceptions, have become smaller when we look at transit times...

But the world remains bigger than that. And every now and then we need to remind ourselves of that, lest we become victims of our own synthetic worlds.

Game over.