Your Gaia view is refreshing. I appreciate your understanding “Our matter has always been here, since the dawn of time. Since before time was even a construct that our little human heads could understand.” When you look through the lens of physics, we are that matter. As a lawyer, you understand Gaia but work in an arena that institutionalizes what you describe as a futile fight against the laws of thermodynamics. Glad we have lawyers like you who might nudge “the system” toward fact that we have no free will. We are the matter that you describe. We have eternal “life” like the living rock and river, called the conservation of mass and energy. Thanks for this essay expressing what the justice system must become.
Your Gaia view is refreshing. I appreciate your understanding “Our matter has always been here, since the dawn of time. Since before time was even a construct that our little human heads could understand.” When you look through the lens of physics, we are that matter. As a lawyer, you understand Gaia but work in an arena that institutionalizes what you describe as a futile fight against the laws of thermodynamics. Glad we have lawyers like you who might nudge “the system” toward fact that we have no free will. We are the matter that you describe. We have eternal “life” like the living rock and river, called the conservation of mass and energy. Thanks for this essay expressing what the justice system must become.
Thank you, Julia. I appreciate your lawyer perspective on this absurdity. And as always, in a beautifully written and thought provoking manner.
"Ive certainly been a rock in a past life" love that.
True Detective: Night Country sounds like something worth checking out - if I had HBO, that is.
great post