In Ian McCallum’s “Ecological Intelligence” he mentions how Copernicus brought about one of the great revolutions in human thought by convincing us that the Earth moved around the Sun, not the other way around. However, centuries later, we haven’t really managed to take this radical shift on board. We still tend to think of ourselves as being the centre of everything. We betray our perspective through the language we use.
We talk about sunset and sunrise. But the sun doesn’t set, it stays where it is. And the sun doesn’t rise, it’s the Earth which turns.
He postulates shouldn’t we be thinking instead of talking about the Earth rising into the night, and dipping into the day?
Stop and think about it for a moment. What does it feel like to think of the Earth rising into the night instead of the Sun setting?
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I’ve long thought about it this way. For reasons I can’t explain, I think I’ve always been aware of our perpetual motion.
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