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For 200,000 years we knew the truth - we knew we were the centre of the Universe. Look, we said, the very Sun goes round us every day, and look, we are the centre of the Gods' attentions, and finally the centre of the One God's attention.
And just as every child goes through the narcissistic phase believing they are the centre of the universe, so we believed we were the centre of the Universe.
But the values of evidence and reason of the Enlightenment led us to question our belief that we are the centre of the Universe.
Evidence and reason applied to astronomy showed us we are not the centre of the Universe. We now know the centre is everywhere. In other words, where ever we are in the Universe, we have the illusion we are at the centre.
And interestingly we still believe our size is at the centre of the Universe. But Quantum Mechanics and Relativity have shown us that size is simply parochial. We are still narcissistic about our size.
But we now know that the very big or the very small are so far out of our perception of size we can't even imagine them, although we can delineate them with great accuracy.
Narcissism is a necessary phase for small children to pass through, but in grownups, narcissism is a neurosis.
This is so very true, but what of our existance as meaning-creating creatures? Isn't there something that humans can find meaningful about life and other humans?