We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Bob Geldof feels the big picture all the time, even in the smallest argument when someone's saying, 'Well, no, you've got to have three staples in the program, not just two,' Bob feels people dying somewhere.
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.
The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.
Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.
Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
The proper way to understand any social system was to view it from above.
