A kinda funny thing about that 'think globally, act locally' line. Dunno what I really think about the line itself except that it seems like basically a totally unobjectionable but also totally toothless idea, but I think it's funner to flip it around.
If we take various scientific laws and equations seriously, like the idea that gravitational pull has this inverse square relation or whatever such that an object's mass has some effect on things that gets really weak with distance. Or like the idea of harmonics, that for any tone that's made, there are an infinite number of other waves that are similarly periodic though weaker and with higher frequencies.
If we take these seriously, me lifting my arm has a tiny but undeniably real gravitational effect at the farthest edges of the universe and my voice has billions of higher harmonics humming throughout existence. If we take those seriously, then I'm really actually acting pretty dang globally even though the thoughts I have about my actions don't really extend very far from my immediate surroundings most of the time. Maybe that's why we're exhorted to think globally and act locally, cuz what we do on our own is usually the other way around
I think this flipped version is way cooler. It makes me think of myself as some node in a mesh that can flex and change the entire universe in this very intimate sorta 'as one' in concert with everything else sense even though my my thoughts are pretty humbly local
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