We keep thinking our current view of things is the structure of reality and the universe itself and how things just are. 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 and provisional. Then when some new point of view comes along like a different way of life, a new form of relationship, a new understanding, a new way to experience, a lot of us 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 because uncertainty gives us anxiety. But it’s also engot because reality has never once been how we understand it initially.
Variation is 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 and 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 story. But it’s never the whole story. There’s always something else.