Before
humankind, matter generally lay around unless weather or giant reptiles stirred
it up. Then we arrived, began thinking about our relationship to the
environment, put a few rocks together, and before you know it the planet's got
jungle gyms, Rubix cubes, and computers.
Between
athletics and the military, it seems the bulk of our ingenuity goes into making
stuff fly and collide. Playing sports is basically controlling the trajectory
of things. Wars amount to nations hurling volatile material at one
another.
All
those impartial atoms caught in the middle.
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