Living In the Machine, part I

by estory

I have always lived in the machine.

It's all I've ever known.

As a boy, I remember watching weather reports on television

Listening to the weatherman in the TV studio

Describing wind and rain,

Labelling the air temperature and the water temperature,

Describing the approach of weather fronts

And low pressure systems

And explaining how they formed clouds

And brought storms.

I never imagined that the world was anything different,

That there could be a life outside the machine,

That there was once a place and a time

When weather was caused by Thor

Swinging his hammer against the frost giants.

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Something of the magic in our perception of the world is lost in all this technology, as convenient as it and practical as it all is. We lose our faith in God to get through the storms, we lose our sense of the magical and mysterious in the universe. When everything is explained, the excitement is gone. And since we were born into all this media exposure, we don't even realize it. It's our natural environment, so to speak. I know it's great to be able to understand what's happening in the world, but somehow I wish sometimes we lived in those days when the weather was explained by Thor and his magical hammer. estory

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