> the end of the spectrum that you are standing up to defend, I claim is currently, universally, getting all the attention, so deemphasizing it would right now

> the end of the spectrum that you are standing up to defend, I claim is currently, universally, getting all the attention, so deemphasizing it would right now be an unalloyed good While I fully support the idea that we should expand our thinking in areas we’ve neglected, how is intentionally deemphasizing a recognition of our relative smallness “unalloyed good”? For many, this recognition is a primary source of awe and wonder, and has no tension whatsoever with a recognition of the importance and usefulness of smallness. If anything, this recognition of smallness is exactly the thing that highlights how rare and interesting we seem to be. Our “insignificance” is also the source of our significance. We also seem prone to binary thinking and false dichotomies. Very few things are purely good or purely bad. Recognizing our smallness doesn’t have to be synonymous with concluding that we are unimportant.