Need Reminding

It's non-trivial, I think, to try to conceptualize in real-time the sheer complexity of the things going on in the biosphere, and the things going on in the world economy, and how they interact. The amount of things going on, the degree to which those things affect other things, it's absurdly complicated, and if you could perceive those interactions in real time, you would probably lose your mind.

Just thinking about the economy of a single nation-- the number of people, the number of jobs, the degree to which your daily existence depends on thousands of others, it's something that we can only realize in fits and starts.

Try to perceive, and then appreciate, the complexity of the world around you.