My friend Mary Lou says a lot of things that are funny, insightful, and memorable. One of her handy remarks: "Everyone lives in a little world."
The minute you think about it, you (may) see that's absolutely true. George Bush lives in a little world of presidential politics, just as Indy drivers live in a little world of fast cars, and George Lucas lives in a little world of making movies. From the outside, their worlds look bigger than ours because more people know about them. From the inside, however, each of us is equally limited by the boundaries of our own little world.
That accounts for much about behavior, and a lot about misunderstandings. But wait, there's more! Beyond the little world of personal experience, many of us also have the sense of participating in a limitless "big world" such as God's kingdom on earth or the noosphere or western civilization or--well, etc.
Of course, some of the big worlds turn out to be just little worlds after all, made limited rather than limitless by prejudice, selfishness, idolatry, and the general failure of faith. That's another topic, though. The idea for today is just an extra reflection on the hopeful agenda here at Metafizzics: to make little worlds richer, and more connected.
