i love everything u write, I've always loved books and writing but the you made tje linguistics of everything so interested, I'm buying the book as soon as i can afford to xoxo
Fascinating and much needed. I’m glad more people are talking about light pollution and the effect a lack of exposure to seeing the stars is having on us. Some people have even mistaken stars and planets for drones and UFOs in recent years! Our ancestors would be laughing at us…
Not only this but we see more stars online in the form of photos from space, like Hubble and JWST, the irony being that the more advanced and detailed our space images get, the less we see of them with the naked eye.
There are some books about this, I have yet to read them but they go into this a lot, as in, the cultural side of stargazing and how it’s decreased because of light pollution: The Human Cosmos by Jo Marchant and Starborn by Roberto Trotta.
And I’m also thinking about the recent rise in astrology. How it’s become so popular in the last decades or so and people are taking it seriously, not just the pop ‘oh what’s your sign?’ stuff but some really go deep into the classical forms of astrology. Whatever one thinks of it, as a bit of fun, or as pseudoscience, or as a spiritual practice which people find helps them in a way, perhaps it shows that people still feel a pull deep inside, a desire (ha!) to find meaning in the stars… (regardless of what one might think of astrology and its validity, I’m mentioning it as a cultural phenomenon purely here)
The part I spiral on, not looking at the stars has changed our eyes. Staring so far away uses different muscles in your eyes. But staring at a screen filled with stars damages them. I spent so much of my childhood in the dark staring in awe at the sky, to think this is a dream now for people because of light encroachment.
i love everything u write, I've always loved books and writing but the you made tje linguistics of everything so interested, I'm buying the book as soon as i can afford to xoxo
Fascinating and much needed. I’m glad more people are talking about light pollution and the effect a lack of exposure to seeing the stars is having on us. Some people have even mistaken stars and planets for drones and UFOs in recent years! Our ancestors would be laughing at us…
Not only this but we see more stars online in the form of photos from space, like Hubble and JWST, the irony being that the more advanced and detailed our space images get, the less we see of them with the naked eye.
There are some books about this, I have yet to read them but they go into this a lot, as in, the cultural side of stargazing and how it’s decreased because of light pollution: The Human Cosmos by Jo Marchant and Starborn by Roberto Trotta.
And I’m also thinking about the recent rise in astrology. How it’s become so popular in the last decades or so and people are taking it seriously, not just the pop ‘oh what’s your sign?’ stuff but some really go deep into the classical forms of astrology. Whatever one thinks of it, as a bit of fun, or as pseudoscience, or as a spiritual practice which people find helps them in a way, perhaps it shows that people still feel a pull deep inside, a desire (ha!) to find meaning in the stars… (regardless of what one might think of astrology and its validity, I’m mentioning it as a cultural phenomenon purely here)
And influencers are looking to become stars, often by leveraging desire (buy this, be like me, etc).
Cant wait to go to the mountains in august and see the galaxy again
The part I spiral on, not looking at the stars has changed our eyes. Staring so far away uses different muscles in your eyes. But staring at a screen filled with stars damages them. I spent so much of my childhood in the dark staring in awe at the sky, to think this is a dream now for people because of light encroachment.
love love love this!!! ❤️ the amount of times i have heard you say "interpretative framework" is definitely much more than the average person loll