macrocosm

The structure alone provides a glimpse into an ancient worldview in which the macrocosm reflects the microcosm, and everything that is or that happens inextricably connects to everything else.

“And it was just mayhem that was about to erupt, I felt. I just know that there are greater forces than us. We think we’re so almighty. And I just wanted to say no, we’re just little minuscule, like, specks of dust within this macrocosm of the universe.”

The social slippage that has led the world to become a macrocosm of the Swap Shop — so many of us free-diving for usable ephemera, pooling our limited resources with one another — is not something to celebrate.

“It’s making a link between the microcosm and macrocosm,” she added, creating “an idea of a world that doesn’t only include the Earth.”

It might be thought that Copernicus was responsible for the destruction of the correspondence between microcosm and macrocosm.