As the song says, “enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think”. In other words, life is finite and time is short. And this doesn’t just apply to pets, and people with interesting obituaries.
Or as another song put it, “the future’s uncertain and the end is always near“. On that occasion Jim Morrison not only knew what he was talking about, he even managed to explain it coherently.
But what light can building model aeroplanes shine on our habitual denial of mortality? As it turns out, a few insights around fragility and stockpiling. Not stockpiling essentials in the face of existential threat or pointless political disruption, but something else entirely.
But let’s start with fragility, because it’s more intuitive – most of us have been told at some point, “Don’t touch that or you will break it”.
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