Nature’s Inside Joke
Have you ever been in the company of people sharing an inside joke? It wasn’t a matter of not having the proper sense of humor, but an essential part of the joke itself was missing. It was literally impossible for you to get it, due to lack of information.
What if nature – the rest of nature, excluding us – was privy to a huge inside joke that humans, for the unique circumstances and conditions of our existence, were unable to get?
Worse yet, what if we were the butt of that joke?