Infinity creates tension

Infinity presents problems. The major problem with exploring Infinity is the immense tension it can cause within lives, and between lives. The tension arises with the knowledge that everything that is possible will not happen. And many of the things we wish would happen are among those that we sense will not happen. This is barely tolerable for one person at a time, but it is totally unacceptable to human beings as a group. Bringing possible things into practice requires several deeply disturbing actions: recognizing that there is something possible that doesn’t exist; facing the personal scrutiny of personal resources and abilities in light of what it would take to bring something into being; choosing what possible thing to devote attention to and invest in; and competing or convincing others what should be built or done, and how it should be built or done. These problems split people within themselves, split individuals against other individuals, and split groups or nations against others.