The big event took place (the giant moon) and we, in our geographic area, were shut out; blocked out to be more exact. I was all set to trek to the beach at 1135p and get my glimpse but it was a no go. It will be clearer tonight and the second chance could be out in its glory....but the "first run", the premiere performance, well it was last night.
I was stewing a little about this over coffee this morning. But for 8 "weather" hours the clouds would have been parted and I would have been dazzled. And this goes to my "stewing". Remember that freshman in college thought that starts with "If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it...."? Well Santa and the Reindeer could have circled the moon for an hour for all I knew and I would have missed it. Anything could have happened and opposed to some lucky fellow in Michigan, I would have been ignorant of the event and he would have been swimming in knowledge in comparison.
See where this is going? It is toward the uneven distribution of knowledge just by chance. Shoot back to a time when we were dependent on what we saw in the sky; to plant crops, to tell direction, even to tell time. Clouds, or lack thereof, were an extreme disadvantage or the opposite, and although short-lived, a sailing ship traveling for a few days under heavy clouds - well you get the idea.
Just for fun, let's substitute clouds for some other "blockage"... chance obscuring by purposeful obscuring. Last night I thought of Galileo and his telescope and stuff like that and the big debate during his life time about if the earth rotated around the sun or the sun around the earth. That was a serious debate. People who chose "wrongly" were sometimes tortured and executed so it was, this observation of who circled who, a matter of life and death. Those who believed wrongly held back knowledge and those who took Galileo and Copernicus to heart got a leg up. Just by having an issue clouded over (real clouds or brain clouds), the result is someone gets the advantage on the knowledge and the other gets the fuzzy end of the lollipop. The longer bad knowledge goes uncorrected the farther off course people become.
I'm OK now. Just had to vent.