Wednesday, March 2, 2011

What if the world was upside down?


What if the world was upside down? Would it have a global shift in powers? Or would we just look at the world in a different way. If North was South, and East was West, I think it would have a dramatic effect on the way in which we perceive everything. Do we have internal compasses? The ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica related direction with color, what if we do that on a subconscious level? Would our colors be all thrown off, or even possibly color blind? It almost seems unthinkable to imagine a world where we see the not above us but below us. Maybe hierarchy within the world has been structured in the Northern part of the world, where the Southern parts of the world are just truly below the super powers of the world, figuratively and literally. If this was the case, would the US and Europe be where Australia, the Southern part of South America, and the Southern part of Africa are currently? Would we believe that being north is inferior? Would South be superior? It is all perception, and the way we look at things, there is no one way or other way, it is just a classification to help us circumnavigate the globe. We are a ball, a ball spinning and spinning and spinning, once we get past borders, and lines, and dots, we will see that we are all truly on a place that technically has no end, there is no end or corners on a ball, it is round! A spherical object that keeps spinning in time, Earth has no judgements on people with different skin color or cultures, why should we?

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