Move On (Nothing To See Here)

I guess it’s obvious that on some level this is a song about total eclipses of the sun, but in this particular case there’s also something else going on. As I’ve noted, these MaxQ tunes I wrote in the second half of the year 2020 came about through me bringing various “gods” into my consideration of humanity’s currently very stressed situation. In this case, the god was a “trickster” god - by which I mean to say some embodiment of the fact that there will be unforeseen factors in humanity’s story going forward.

Move On (Nothing To See Here) is an acknowledgement that there are very strange as of yet unexplained components of our world. The near identical sizes of the moon and sun as seen from earth at this time in history is a totally bizarre fact. There is no good reason that we know yet for this remarkable coincidence to exist. There is no good reason to think we understand the implications, if any, of this highly unlikely coincidence. It is totally weird and highly unlikely, but it is indeed as it is. Weird stuff like this is real, right here in our totally mundane and miraculous world.

Going forward, we must expect the unexpected, and stay light on our feet.

Looking at that last sentence, I see one huge largely unexamined assumption. “Going forward” may not be a particularly accurate or useful description of our relationship to time.