Rabbit Holes

Let's go down the rabbit hole, together.

Per Merriam Webster,

: a complexly bizarre or difficult state or situation conceived of as a hole into which one falls or descends

Let's go down the rabbit hole, together.

especially: one in which the pursuit of something (such as an answer or solution) leads to

Let's go down the rabbit hole, together.

other questions, problems, or pursuits

Per me,

:the development of a hyper fixation,

especially: a place where time does not pass consciously until eyes begin to burn. Also known as: known cause of inspiration, awareness,

too many tabs on a phone, fever dream inducing insomnia,

Let's go down the rabbit hole, together.

perpetual third place in pub quizzes,
pillow talk about the coldest you ever felt,
and if anything in the tundra feels,
what exactly awaits under the permafrost,
why are people not more concerned,
how many things can a person be concerned with at once,
if the brain could ever be access by a storage device,
if it could be accessed, what would define personhood,
can we even define personhood,
can we even define anything, even words,
growth that can feel like loss,
and loss that can feel like growth.

A recent start, before I tumbled down…

I stumbled upon a debate* on Reddit about what being “uncontacted” truly means for a tribe or culture, which of course led to
- learning more and more about the known tribes in what we call Ecuador and northern Brazil
- then eventually reading the excellent memoir We Will Not Be Saved by Nemonte Nenquimo & Mitch Anderson (UK title, US title is We Will Be Jaguars)
- Wait so why do we count the way we do in Western society? There way seems much more intuitive…
- Ah, that’s right. Base 10 is what we use, it all comes back to counting on our fingers doesn’t it?
- The way she explained her culture’s system is so intuitive though — is it because her language has been based on this? Is there some sort of connection I’m missing? Let’s read more about this language.
- okay, that was fascinating, I will have to think on how language can define conception of past and present more later. Let’s go back to Nemonte’s incredible efforts to preserving her people…
- and even getting Ecuador to become the first country to recognize the rights of the environment…
- but then we took a deeper twist, on Christian missionaries, and the harms they can and do cause…
- which eventually, leads me to reading the masterpiece of a novel, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver and further researching
- okapi and palindromes,
- how and why different clothes and adornments developed,
- and why the hell Western society developed neck ties.
- &c., with &c. as an old-fashioned way of saying,
- etc.

*debate: do you ever feel like debates are less and less common? There’s disagreements, sure, but they often feel like watching a game of ping pong, with the balls already preformed, ready to go, and people just waiting for their chance to hit.