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and cultural projections and events based upon fragmentary past data and/or subjective assumptions that, by whatever means, perpetuate human dominance over any
other concept, or biological organisms. For example, the obsession with sustainability, with its static, endless, and actually meaningless cadence, a “Hail Caesar”
gesture in compliance with self-perpetuation at any cost, maximizing short-term
risks for hoped-for long-term interests. And this deeply worrisome condition, in
spite of the fact our short-term liabilities in a world of largely uncoordinated nationstates and more than 6000 largely incomprehensible language groups, remains on
an intractable, most probably catastrophic trajectory. No appropriate descriptions
from Big History, Big Data, artificial genomics, natural selection, or evolution are
able to tease meaning from the absolute zero calm at the center of ecological vagueness, or along any length or circumflex of the enchanted, hopeful obscure.
Between the real person and its obverse fiction, the biological mass of such ideas
pertaining to actual events, or unrealized chimera consisting of ideals and extrapolations exists a theoretical contiguity of unknown properties, dimensions, and opportunities, all of which argue for the epiphanies earlier likened to that category of
obscurity, vagueness, and emptiness, at the heart and origins of reconciling paradox
and engendering some semblance of hope for the future (Fig. 80.5).
Fig. 80.5 The Man Who Feeds Pigeons At the Umayyad Mosque (أموي ال ,)اجلامع Downtown Damascus.
(Photo © M.C. Tobias)
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and cultural projections and events based upon fragmentary past data and/or subjective assumptions that, by whatever means, perpetuate human dominance over any
other concept, or biological organisms. For example, the obsession with sustainability, with its static, endless, and actually meaningless cadence, a “Hail Caesar”
gesture in compliance with self-perpetuation at any cost, maximizing short-term
risks for hoped-for long-term interests. And this deeply worrisome condition, in
spite of the fact our short-term liabilities in a world of largely uncoordinated nationstates and more than 6000 largely incomprehensible language groups, remains on
an intractable, most probably catastrophic trajectory. No appropriate descriptions
from Big History, Big Data, artificial genomics, natural selection, or evolution are
able to tease meaning from the absolute zero calm at the center of ecological vagueness, or along any length or circumflex of the enchanted, hopeful obscure.
Between the real person and its obverse fiction, the biological mass of such ideas
pertaining to actual events, or unrealized chimera consisting of ideals and extrapolations exists a theoretical contiguity of unknown properties, dimensions, and opportunities, all of which argue for the epiphanies earlier likened to that category of
obscurity, vagueness, and emptiness, at the heart and origins of reconciling paradox
and engendering some semblance of hope for the future (Fig. 80.5).
Fig. 80.5 The Man Who Feeds Pigeons At the Umayyad Mosque (أموي ال ,)اجلامع Downtown Damascus.
(Photo © M.C. Tobias)
80 Temptational Obscurity That Brings Hope to Life