Picture inside your mind the Earth remade in your image.
Basically, the planet becomes a bust of your head.
Now, imagine all the people of Earth as thoughts running through your gigantic brain. See how they wage war against each other . . . do you find yourself agonizing over what brand of corn flakes or detergent you should buy?
Observe how they cooperate . . . are you having an unusually productive day?
Note how natural disasters, wars, and plagues wipe out whole sections of your thinking . . . now you’ve got fever and chills . . . and you better write stuff down! You probably won’t be able to write down every last thought. Things will get lost along the way. But if you’re diligent enough you can write down a lot of things . . . make it into a book proposal, even . . . “One planet’s inspirational saga of resilience” . . . “My personal journey into alien abduction” . . . “A Book of Revelation for the New Era” . . . “Quick and easy grilling for the family on the go” . . . shit like that . . .
Uh-oh! Here comes a giant meteor . . . boy this car crash is really expensive!
A new species evolves . . . you’ve changed, haven’t you? Not in an obvious way. But subtly. Change can steer you in a new direction. Subtly. Like you didn’t even notice ‘til your therapist pointed out that pattern . . .
Ups and downs. Fate and/or free will. You are the planet. Yes you. You’re the whole world. You and all your tiny, boring shit.
In the fullness of time, out-of-control climate inferno kills off all your “thoughts,” makes you uninhabitable . . . incapable of further thoughts . . . alas . . . if only you could’ve let go of your obsession with politicians and pop stars jetting all over the Earth . . . if only you could’ve let go of the dream of every last person tooling about in gas-guzzling, carbon-polluting SUVs . . . if only you could’ve given a few thoughts to sustainability . . . alas . . . and oops . . .
Now, inside your mind . . . all is furious burning . . . visions of dragons of fire crashing into each other, merging flames, all is howling . . . this is The New Thought of All Times . . .
It’s also . . . fun you can have.
