I’m thinking about when science put us at the center of everything, and the sun revolved around us.
Where you surprised when you learned our solar system is not in the middle of our galaxy? It’s not even close to the middle of the galaxy. Were you surprised to learn it’s flung out on the edge one of the arms, like an afterthought, like it’s going to fall off? Like nothing at all special?

When we moved to Kansas, from Florida, when I was 8, I wrote a letter back to my friend telling him Kansas was in the middle of the country, and we lived in the middle of Kansas and I thought that was cool. Well, Kansas is pretty much in the middle of the country, but Wichita isn’t in the middle. It’s to the south, and we lived south of Wichita.

Why do we humans have this trait? Is it from our religious history? Or is it some sort of instinct?