Created: 2023-04-20 19:59
The big mistake in this pattern of failure is projecting your subjective lack of comprehension onto the object you are looking at, as “irrationality.” We make this mistake because we are tempted by a desire for legibility
Complex realities turn this logic on its head; it is easier to comprehend the whole by walking among the trees, absorbing the gestalt, and becoming a holographic/fractal part of the forest, than by hovering above it A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
Maybe the famous phrase is backwards in a way, maybe need to also look at the trees in isolation to understand the forest as a whole.