Suffice to say, I think it's obvious that it has been a hot moment since the last time any real inspiration struck me. I've touched on why in at least one previous post from many years ago--that thinking of the world and of existence requires a higher level of thought than is often available to us during the daily grind. If you must hunt and gather continuously to find food for subsistence, physical tangible food or else intellectual or emotional sustenance, you do not have the structure in place that allows you the time to delve into the higher levels of existence. If memory serves me, and I'm not entirely certain it does, I had basically surmised that those who have to struggle for air rarely can oxygenate the intellect enough to stimulate new understandings of ideas. It has been such a very long time for me between said events. Inspiration has found a way to strike however, and it is this. Humankind, and indeed all of nature as we know it, i...