Rhythms spanning geological timescales may be imperceptible to humans yet still real
Evidence
There may be rhythms which extend over tens of millions of years and are therefore unrecognisable to us, except as single unconnectable and unexplainable events. … But the fact that we have no context to fit them into doesn’t mean they don’t happen. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 413
Categorization
- STORYSTEM: A story or worldbuilding premise where an event is actually one pulse of an unperceivably slow rhythm — e.g. geological-scale cycles taken as singular catastrophes.
- DEEPTHINKING: The idea that ignorance of a cycle’s period makes its recurrence look like isolated random events is genuinely paradigm-warping about how perception and context work.
- XREF: connects to: People can be perceived as carriers of deep time and genetic continuity — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 404
Broader Connections
- People can be perceived as carriers of deep time and genetic continuity
#exemplifies(0.78) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 404