When you stop seeing yourself as an individual and instead a part of an emergent swarm, it's like a dolly-zoom.

· Bits and Bobs 4/27/26
  • When you stop seeing yourself as an individual and instead a part of an emergent swarm, it's like a dolly-zoom.
    • The iconic shot first used in Jaws.
    • Nothing changed, and yet something fundamental has changed.
    • A whooshing feeling that's impossible to not feel.
    • One example: "You aren't in traffic, you are traffic."
    • It places the perspective outside of yourself, and you see yourself as part of en
    • emergent phenomena that is much bigger than you or any other entity.

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