02-12-2021, 01:07 PM
Other-self SF, you may want to consider whether or not you are over thinking all this by a considerable margin. It may be better to look at it, not so much as mechanistic natural laws, but as adaptable principles which provide a vehicle for self exploration. Glow's example is a good one. Another is the "fact," as told by alien informants, that high flying, high density groups have gone to different planets to offer aid and even they have screwed up the balance of infringement. Moreover, they brought their plans before an all wise Council of whatever-it-is and still they screwed it up. If it's not obvious to these folks, why should it come to you or me in a package of facile comprehension? That is to say, I just don't think it works that way.
I'm suggesting that expending so much energy trying to map out the illusion may be something to reconsider. Seeking the balances within (as in the Glow example) might be a better use of energy....if you're into that sort of thing, of course.