We keep thinking our current view of things is the structure of reality and the universe itself. We get taught and come up with myths, categories, labels, and certainty because they help us orient but then we get arrogant and start forcing those views as the final, absolute truth instead of just temporary, provisional containers. Then when something new comes along like a different way of life, a new form of relationship, a new understanding, a new way to experience, a lot of people just either act in fear or completely minimize it or invalidate it without further reflection. We tend to just force it back into what we already understand and what already feels safe. It’s understandable because uncertainty gives us anxiety. But it’s also engot or stupid because reality has never once been how we understand it initially.

Variation is not a problem. New things are part of the process of reality, of change, of evolution. So thinking that old myths and beliefs are natural endpoints and just how the way things are is problematic. We can’t blindly accept those to invalidate lived experience just because it’s easier. We are susceptible to humancentric arrogance. We are susceptible to confusing familiarity with reality. We are susceptible to deadening impulse to make the universe understandable so it fits the comfort of the current human story. But it’s never the whole story. There’s always something else.