As much as language is a tool for us to crack things open, it sets limits. There's a reason why you understand everything I'm saying: we have all agreed that these words refer to the same thing.
Moments of Impact: “What If” Instead of “What Is”
While words like "are" and "is" presents facts, we also have words called "modals" that comment on how reality should, could, or might be.
Moments of Impact: What is Human Potential?
So often, it feels like Marx was kind of right: we're trying to run past what society demands of us so we can just have a moment to fall deeper into ourselves. To process. To make. To develop. Whether you're the starving artist trope or a busy individual trying to develop a new scientific theory, we're all fighting to get to spend time with our human potential, our estranged pet in the modern day (unless you're denying it, then that's a whole other story).
Moments of Impact: Discovering a Cell
My moment of impact this week occurred after watching The Truman Show for the second time in at least a decade. This moment, which is still unfolding, occurred as Jim Carrey delivers his Oscar-worthy performance as Truman Burbank having a nervous breakdown in the process of hunting for truth in an entirely fictitious world. The rolling waves and thundering night sky you see in the GIF there are man-made, the product of a television set that Truman doesn't even know he was raised on.