What Microcosm Today?

Obviously, the cosmos is a bit too much to take in. Just about everyone argues some point about the exact nature of its origin, makeup, extent, and end. The arguments are, for the most part, extraneous to everyday life. Most people probably don’t think the nature of the cosmos plays much of a role in their personal lives.

But somewhere in the back of all consciousness lies the thought that the individual is in a place, and the place is in the cosmos. It’s the context for all that is personal. So, how do we deal with this background? We replace it. We focus on microcosms. We make our own worlds, worlds that we can understand. Some are relatively simple, like arenas where the dramas of sport play out in defined principles and laws. Some are relatively complex, like social intrigues. Are the microcosms distractions from the larger encompassing entity? Yes, but they serve a purpose.

Microcosms are the only worlds we can deal with in totality. The larger cosmos, the Background of Everything, is indefinite, if not infinite. Finite beings have difficulty with infinities and with the undefined. Microcosms of any kind allow us to frame worlds we can see in total and ones that we can influence or even change in some way.

Look at the microcosms you will enter or originate today.