Monday, April 26, 2010
whenever there are discussions of tiny little organisms, i always think of the same thing. what if we were actually really tiny and something else thinks of us as tiny little microscopic things. people say that we would know if there was some living thing so much larger than us, but do the little pond scum creatures know about us? it reminds me of seussical the musical, where there is a whole tiny world on a speck of dust and they never knew until they were blown away one day. well, if we were a speck of dust, we could all think like george carlin. basically our whole universe could literally be in the hands of someone, or something else, and if they decide to squish us like the bug we may look like to them, reducing greenhouse gas emissions isn't really going to matter.
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It's funny, I thought the same thing. I immediately recalled Horton Hears a Who and how there was that whole world contained inside a tiny flower. Its almost overwhelming to think about, but an interesting concept. I think that you almost might be channeling Carlin in this blog when you say that reducing greenhouse gas emissions wont matter.
ReplyDeleteI never thought about the reading or the whole microscopic creature concept until you phrased it like that. We always tend to think of things bigger than us, hardly ever smaller. Maybe that sort of ties to Wendell berry's Faustian Economics. As americans we are obsessed with those things that are bigger than ourselves but give little attention to those smaller, and smaller can be less privledged, less developed, or considred by our standards to be less important.
ReplyDeleteI think at a certain point the smaller an animal gets the less it is "aware". Essentially, it knows it must eat,breed, and sleep. It reacts to stimuli and can interact with it. But I don't know it some animals know that they are actually alive.
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