In this world, everything is inverted — and inside the inversion it feels normal, simply because it’s standardized.
It’s like we’re living in the negative of a color image, or in an upside-down world that believes it’s straight. And you don’t know it while you’re inside the inversion. You call it normal simply because it’s normalized.
I often wonder about the eye and the brain. About how the image is physically inverted before we ever “see” it.
We come into this world head down, not legs first. Lying down, incapable of walking.
We don’t have thick skin or fur coats to protect our bodies. Yet shelter, clean water, and food are not universal, unquestioned essentials.
People hate their jobs but spend more and more of their lives doing them.
We live in concrete houses and listen to nature on apps.
People meditate to regulate, instead of slowing down and turning the noise off.
We prolong life, but we run an illness-management system, not a health system.
You are required to be polite, not honest.
We talk more easily with AI than with each other.
Everybody wants things to change, but no one wants to get uncomfortable.
I could continue this list forever… but one more inversion from this morning:
100% humidity at 7:30 a.m. (according to two weather apps). Cyprus winter.
I used to hear Cypriots complain about electricity bills when I was in Greece. Now I understand. Their houses are not built to retain heat in winter or cool in summer. My ancient little house in Greece did that, without even having double-glazed windows.
Housing development in Cyprus makes the country look like a little Switzerland in the Mediterranean, but the real cost of energy waste probably isn’t measured.
This isn’t pessimism or nihilism; it’s reality without a suit and gloves on.
Monday morning. Society buckles up for another round of chasing, rushing, repeating — as the ultimate way of life. Yes, you can choose variations and degrees of all this, but you can’t choose to exit. Exit doesn’t ensure survival 😂
Anyone who considers this negative, biased, or harmful is lying to themselves.
You have to lie to have.
Cheat to succeed.
Compromise to be seen.
We cage people and animals, and then invent vegetarianism and veganism, without caring what we’re doing to each other.
We distrust one another and instead draw contracts to bind one another.
If this isn’t inversion, I don’t know what is.
Part of why the inversion isn’t seen is that sequencing hides patterns.
Straight lines (not found anywhere in nature) hide circles.
We separate fields, specialize perception, fragment knowledge, miss data, lose connections. Even while we know, theoretically, that “the whole is more than the sum of its parts.”
So ignorance prevails.
Compromise continues.
The illusion of progress is sustained.
I never understood why I had to add “yes, but…” to whatever I’m looking at. So I won’t.
