Everything You Know is Wrong
Surrealism is Simply the Lack of Exploration
E.O Milne
‘But there is a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws.’
– David Eddings
THERE IS ALWAYS A MOMENT when the world seems off, as if something is not correct. Repeatedly in movies, we see things that are out of this world but then we turn on the news to see alien sightings and things that do not seem to fit into the normalized idea of reality.
There is so much that we do not know about ourselves and the space that we live in, for all that we know. Everything we do may be controlled and everything we do may not even exist. We are a minuscule idea that floats in the middle of a question.
Yet it is one of the few questions that will never be solved. We have no way of knowing that the universe goes on forever and we have no way of knowing that we are the only beings in the universe.
One day there will be a headline on the news that boggles the mind, it may be a message from beyond. Or it may be the message from a higher power that many have been waiting for forever.
But when it comes, and I am sure one day we shall receive a form of an answer, I believe many will not accept it. Because we have created a little shelter for ourselves to make humanity seem like something bigger than it is. But the moment that we are given the truth, that we are fragile, and our demise is near, I believe like many facts, the public will not accept it.
There is a movie called ‘Don’t Look Up’ which covers a similar topic. A meteorite is confirmed to be heading directly towards where we stand now. Yet when the President is made aware, they are so familiar with what they have in life now, that they almost do not believe that it is correct. And even though this is a fictional tale, I believe that the moment something bigger than us comes to our doorstep, we will ignore it.
Because that is the thing about humanity. We think surrealism is surreal. That flying pigs do not exist, that mermaids are only in books. We have no way to prove that this is not the case. But still, we make it a fact.
Somewhere out there, there may very well be a mermaid sitting on a rock. But you will still call that place a fairytale until you shake hands with such a thing.
But what if space is not just increased planets? What if there is something greater than time sitting outside our capacity, what if the things waiting for us are incomprehensible and no one has yet even thought of it?
It is like the idea of thinking of a colour that we do not know about. We cannot because Homo Sapiens only know what we have seen, heard of, or been described. Everything we know needs influence. So say we come across a being that does not have eyes or hair. and does not communicate. Yet they have other attributes that we have never thought of.
I would try to describe a being such as this now, but I am not sure the letters on my keyboard could begin to describe what is outside our comfort zone.
God may likely be real. But how do they even know that someone is not waiting behind them in the darkness? The greatest power of all may be so far out of our reach that even when we die, we will never know the truth.
Life is one big question. And we all spend our lives thinking that we have a purpose on this earth. But what about in comparison to the great beyond? If something millions of light years away heard about what we have here now.
I do not think they would be interested in us besides the fact that we called ourselves humans. They would be interested in the idea of humans but not the battles we have. Who has the largest economy and so forth?
It may sound quite harsh to make this statement. But we as a society are quite selfish. We only think about ourselves. We think about how we are going to survive, how we are going to get the house that we dream of. We spend over 13 years learning and preparing for our lives ahead. But we never think about going out and finding the truth for the benefit of anyone other than ourselves.
The only reason politicians and NASA investigate space is for personal advantage.
Because we are egotistical beings, with egocentric ideologies.