The closest I can come to a definition of humility is something like ‘the proper understanding of your relationship to the Cosmos.’ This is a tall order because the Cosmos is vast none of us know very much about any part of it. That’s not false humility, that’s just a fact. The world we see is very complicated. Hideously complicated, in fact, and I think we have developed cultural and psychological mechanisms to hide this fact from ourselves so that we don’t go insane. We view things in the lowest level of resolution that will allow us to operate them to get what we want.
Hi again, whenever I think of humility I imagine Douglas Adams and the Total Perspective Vortex. It's a devious machine which shows you the entire universe and then your minute miniscule place within it. It causes soul wrenching screams from all who get tortured within it. But it's at the same time a necessary device if you can survive it.
I heard a song over the weekend that reminded me about this podcast again:
Hello Take Me Anywhere by Night Shop - https://youtu.be/udNpCe60M-0
It has a few lines that are essentially about humility and I really love the way he says it:
Everybody’s fighting off irrelevance. As if we won’t all become irrelevant.
He’s like a dinosaur sweating making arguments. He’s saying “I rest my case.” Then the asteroid hits.
As if your prominence was permanently earned. And when I listened to you there was nothing to be learned.
Hi again, whenever I think of humility I imagine Douglas Adams and the Total Perspective Vortex. It's a devious machine which shows you the entire universe and then your minute miniscule place within it. It causes soul wrenching screams from all who get tortured within it. But it's at the same time a necessary device if you can survive it.