@july

So much of what you deem to be the case is pretty malleable. For example, trees planted on the side of the road feel pretty set in the sense that they won't change; they're probably not going to move. No, the city government is not going to bother to change them; it's not really going to change, with a little effort in the short term or long term. A short-term solution might be you just literally go and take a chainsaw and cut the tree down. A longer-term solution would be to work through local government, ethically or unethically; you can enact a lot of change. You can get rid of the trees; you can replace the trees; you can force their hand. There's a lot of strategy that you can take that would effectively change the status quo. We think about this because so much of life, even going to a shop or maybe a souk, is really just like everything is negotiable in a way. I like to think of them as sort of kind of buffer zones. It's sort of like when you think about a container, a glass container. From far away, the glass container looks as if it has very clear boundaries of what it is versus what it's not. It can contain liquids; it can contain all these things. It can contain food; it can contain other stuff that have their own boundaries, physical boundaries; but then you start really getting into the microscopic level, something maybe you can see with the electron microscope, and you start to quickly realize that the boundary is actually not very clear. Everything is permeable. Things can pass through things like neutrinos. It really starts to change the way that you look at anything, because then nothing, everything is a sieve. And if everything is a sieve, then there's this sort of added feeling that the infrastructure that you are part of, that is the real world reality (or however you want to call it), has porous boundaries. Essentially, everything is porous, and it's up to you how much you want to penetrate or shape-shift the porous reality and how much you want to accept it, because you can't change everything all the time - seemingly, our lifetimes or at least single lifetimes won't allow it, or do they?

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