illion blindness
like blush blindness but instead of makeup, think capitalism
For last weekend’s Sag full moon I was really pumping us up to go for Truth with a capital T.
And recently, while meditating, the phrase came to me – “illion blindness”.
Illion blindness refers to the fact that we see, or are encouraged to see, a million, a billion and a trillion as one “big” number.
We are made blind to the BIG DIFFERENCE between those numbers that all end in “illion”. I believe this is on purpose.
Listening to the amounts that this administration has stolen from the people or listening to what is spent on war each day, I don’t think we are really clocking the actual amounts. If we were, we’d all be out, screaming in the streets and refusing to pay our taxes. Our collective illion blindness reduces anything that ends in illion to just a big number.
As we potentially are approaching our first individual “trillionaire*” I want us to understand the truth of that number, what it actually means.
There is a really big difference between these “illions”, these big numbers.
Metaphorically, there is something as big as the Grand Canyon between a million and a billion and something bigger than earth between a billion and a trillion. Even though these words rhyme, they do not mean the same thing.
1 million seconds is about 11 days.
1 billion seconds is about 31.5 years.
1 trillion seconds is more than all of recorded history (just under 32,000 years).
A millionaire is has much more in common with someone who has zero dollars than he is to a billionaire.
I feel like we are all the frogs in a big, slowly boiling pot of water; all thinking we are at the spa - that it is millions that this administration has stolen, not billions; or that that we are spending a million/day for the war in Iran, not a BILLION/day. And so on…
Illion blindness isn’t the only kind of blindness they are pushing on us. Let’s look at another kind of blindness…