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The Scheme of Things

11/24/2009|Matt "Steerpike" Sakey|Ephemera1
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I found this at a blog my novelist brother contributes to, and thought it was amazing. Not, perhaps, as soul-quaking as the 3D Hubble Ultra Deep Field video, but still a nice way to remind us that we are very small indeed, and that even very small things can create beauty. Odd beauty, sometimes, but still.

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11/24/2009 Matt "Steerpike" Sakey

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Tap-Repeatedly Overlord Steerpike is a games industry journalist and consultant. His earliest memories are of video games, and hopes his last memories will be of them as well. He’s a featured monthly columnist with the International Game Developers Association, and is internationally published in an assortment of dull e-Learning texts and less dull gaming publications. He also lectures on games at various universities.

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One Response to The Scheme of Things

  • Tony "Two Toes" 11/24/2009

    Steerpike,
    What a remarkable piece of work.  It not only illustrates how insignificant we are, but shows how foolish mankind is with its trivial arguments designed to self-aggrandize rather that solve.  You should forward this to our political leaders to remind them they need to consider the people more than their own selfish needs.

    In a recent editorial, Thomas Friedman said it beautifully and factually.  He essentially stated that our political process is designed to provide “sub-optimal solutions” to very big problems.  I believe this to be so because we have an over-inflated view of our importance.

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