Pangea Begalia and the Illusion of Ownership

Another TV program I watched last night, courtesy of a lousy social life, is one by National Geographic about the continental drift.

Geologists forecast that eventually, because of tectonic movements, all the land masses on the planet will converge into a single humongous land mass characterized by extreme weather. Super hot and dry in certain parts, very wet and stormy in others, and cold and icy at the fringes.

Central Europe will crash into Africa, Australia with Asia, the Americas with Western Europe and Russia. Computer simulations reveal there will likely be a hole in the middle, sort of an inland sea, surrounded by new land, new mountains, new deserts. It will look like a bagel run over by a truck. Meanwhile, all the oceans will surround this land mass as one huge combined mass of water.

It reminds me very much of the world of Avatar Aang, the Airbender, where the world is a single land mass divided into four nations - the Air Kingdom, Earth Kingdom, Water Kingdom and Fire Nation, minus the outlying islands you see on this map of Avatar World.


The big crunch is slated to happen hundreds of millions of years from now as the planet evolves. Its doubtful if any humans will be around, which makes me wonder.

People in our age love to go to war over land borders. This land is "ours", not "yours". We'll fight to the death to reclaim what is "ours." We insist on documents to step over an imaginary border. We build fences - physical and mental, and make a big deal about "this side" and "that side."

So why do we do all that knowing that in time to come, the concept of "your land" and "my land" is meaningless because it is either swallowed up by the sea, subducted by earthquakes or destroyed by raging volcanos?

Why do we build up so much greed, hatred and fear over something we know will cease to exist?

Sure it makes sense if all you're thinking about is what's for dinner tonight and what movie's on this weekend. But in the larger scheme of things, does what we feel so strongly about today really matter if it makes not the slightest difference as far as the physical world is concerned?

We live in a matrix.

And the matrix is rooted not in the physical but in a vapor world that is both imaginary and fleeting, hence labeled as unreal by some.

I learn new things about the matrix every day.