>>21129318Then you aren’t going far enough. When was the last time you left civilization and immersed yourself in the world? I’m not talking a trip to the local park or a bike path outside of town, I’m talking a long hiking/camping trip somewhere remote with no cell service and no other people. Just you, yourself, alone with the elements and the world.
There was this one place I used to frequent when I was growing up on a ranch out in the boonies, the property backed up about 15 miles of state land that was isolated from public use because it was surrounded by private property, so only the government, gas company and people who owned surrounding property had access to it. About 5 miles away from home there was this spot in a dry creek bed in the center of a little valley surrounded by a small forest that I would hike out too, I called it the ‘quite place’ because it was so isolated from the surrounding world. There was no cell service; not even 911 would work or any walkie talkies due to the rugged terrain. There was seldom any wind in this area and hardly any sound other than your own footsteps or breathing. It was a serene experience and helped me realize just how much of an infinitesimally small microcosm we as humans are in the world. This sort of experience isn’t something you can experience in civilization; where everything around you is made by humans, for humans, inhabited by humans. Even if you sit alone in a dark room you can’t really escape it. You are surrounded by man made objects, listening to man made instrument like a fan or a car driving by outside, the dim room illuminated by LED strip on a nearby device or the incandesces of a streetlight seeping in through the cracks in the curtains. It’s only once you remove yourself from a man made environment and notice the lack of noise and sound pollution do you realize just how differentiated our existence is from the greater world at large.
