Life on Earth in this last week in Britain is very strange for the humans. Within the parameter of normality, as defined by what goes out on national airwaves or printed in newspapers, NASA launched the Nancy Grace Roman telescope away from this spinning mass of rock, held in place by Sol in a galaxy vast itself, and which will chart the further reaches of the universe and map 2 billion stars (if all goes to plan), on the surface of Earth the politics of earthlings is very complicated in northern Europe and America, while around the mass of rock volcanoes erupt, Central Asia is already forgotten by the news in the catastrophic floods, and its supply chains from global ports are becoming shaky, and on Thursday 3rd September BBC Radio 4 had Norman Day, to celebrate the Bayeux Tapestry in London.
The question is, where is the reality? This is not a philosophical question. Nor is it a metaphysical or New Age nebulous experiential search for the higher vibrations of existence not apparent to us mere earthlings. It is a question on continuum, and that is physical, because all life on Earth is contained within the physical realm. And reality does mean continuity of a certain length of time, and to exist for a certain length of time must mean the pre-requisites for that to happen. What does that mean? Well, as this is not a metaphysical, New Age, mystical, nebulous blog but a logical, factual, scientifically proven blog, continuity means extendable on the horizontal span of life.
Now, the Norman Day on BBC Radio 4 did speak much history, and did interview some school children seeing the Bayeux Tapestry for the first time. Never however, did the present day get equated with the eleventh century CE. Was it real? Yes, logically it was, not only because the Tapestry was created, but much evidence besides does still exist to show that human society existed in northern Europe and Britain and Norse lands about 1,000 years ago. Nothing however was equated of today to then, only a modern interpretation of entente cordiale between the French President, the ‘UK’ government, and the King (that was not the intention of the weavers back then), the usual stuff about how unfair it was to not have women in the Tapestry (evidence of the Patriarchy), and the past behaviour of humans in ransacking and pillaging and crushing the peaceful natives. The clear inference is that all is fine today, more than fine in fact. And nothing is said about the reality of space travel, that the bubble of knowledge, billions of stars and extraordinary detail on far flung space dust has no physical relevance to life for the mere earthling. Nobody could live out there, no society could maintain itself, and if the batteries went flat, the spaceship with the telescope would be going nowhere.
So where is reality in 2026 in Britain? Does it form a continuum of historical reality, or has that been truncated by the mutation of post war politics? Does it await the higher vibrations of freedom from mortal life, into the range and realm of ever increasing scientific data?