Life is an elipse
In the 17th century, Johannes Kepler decided that the planets didn’t move in a circular motion but rather in orbits, which could be represented mathematically as an ellipse….what if this is also true of life as we experience it? They say that life, politically moves in a pendulum, moving from extreme left to extreme right….what if the two combined are true? What if life as we experience it is moving in it’s own elliptical orbit?
In the very beginnings of modern, western thought, there were great thinkers. Mathematicians were also philosophers, astronomers, even artists. The world was new to them and they had to think of it globally in order to take it in. There were no shoulders for them to stand on so they had to create universal theories of everything. There were no paths for them to start upon, they had to forge their own from scratch.
Today, we have gotten far away from the great thinkers and have moved into specialization. In this shift, I feel that we have lost the big picture. Today’s neuroscientists don’t have time to be philosophers, to think about the implications of their daily discoveries. We are so over-loaded with the information that it takes just to get to the top of all these specialized fields that it makes me wonder if there’s any time to innovate when we get there. Is this specialization getting us to our higher self or is it leading to our own extinction? Maybe it’s time for less specialization and more globalization. A change of course in our orbit……..maybe.
